This document is the transcription of the Apollo 12 flightcrew commlmications as recorded on the Command module (CM) data storage equipment (DSE), and subsequently transmitted (dumped) to Manned Space Flight Network stations. Magnetic tapescontaining dumped voice and onboard-recorded ground elapsed time were forWarded to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. Transcription of these tapes was managed by David M. Goldenbaum, Test Division, Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, to whom questions regarding this document should be referred. In the text, a series of three dots (...) is used to designate those portions of the communications that could not be transcribed because of garbling; a series of three asterisks (***) is used to designate places when the voice was clipped because the VOX mode was in use. _ One dash (-) is used to indicate a speaker's pause or a self-interruption. Two dashes (- -) are used to indicate an interruption by another speaker or a point at which a recording was abruptly terminated. The Apollo 12 mission was flown November 14 to 24, 1969. The command and service module (CSM) was designated Yankee Clipper and the lunar module (LM) was called Intrepid. Speakers in the transcript are identified as follows:

The transcript is divided into three COll_mns--time, speaker, and text. The time column consists of four two-digit pairs for days, hours, minutes, and seconds (e.g., 04 22 34 14). The speaker col_,m_uindicates the source of a transmission% the text column contains the verbatim transcript of the communications.

Turn off the buses. MARK. One Bravo. Roger. There's We had a whole nothing bunch of buses - drop out.

- it's nothing

A circuit

Where are we going? I can't see; there's AC BUS i light, ... I just lost the platform. All we've got's the GDC. something wrong. - -

all the fuel cells

Yes. Okay. We Just lost the platform, gang. I don't know what happened here; we had everything in the world drop out. I can't - There's nothing I can tell is wrong, Pete.

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I got three FUEL CELL lights, an AC BUS light, a FUEL CELL DISCONNECT, AC BUS OVERLOAD i and 2, MAIN BUS A and B out. I got ac. We got ac? Yes. Maybe it's just the indicator. the main bus? Main bus is - The volt indicated What do you got on

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Huh? Twenty-four volts, which is low. But I can't

We've got a short on it of some kind. believe the volt - Apollo 12, Houston.

SCE to AUX. The GDC is good. Stand by for the - I've lost the event lost the - One Charlie. One - one Charlie. Two minutes. Yes. EDS, AUTO - 12, Houston. Roger. glitch, What GO for staging. We had some real big EDS, AUTO, is OFF. timer; I've

bother me particularly, and we have reset all the fuel cells, have all the buses back on the line, and we'll just - clear up the platform when we get into orbit. 00 00 04 03 CC Pete - real good.

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What's

that

PPO 2 I want?

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Hey, that's one of the better SIMs, believe me. Phew! Man alive! I'll tell you what happened - We had a couple of cardiac Pete. arrests down here, too,

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There wasn't any time for that up here. Okay, we've got a good clock running here, and correct me, I'm going to give you a mark at 4 plus 30. I've lost my event timer, and MARK. Four plus 30.

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Good, Pete. Okay, we're all organized again, gang.

I think the only thing we've lost now is the ISS. Our number 1 hall is just drifting all over the place; we'll have to catch it later. - - Dick. You might have the G&C guys think about how we're going to get that thing, because it's just drifting; it's floating. Okay, we're Stand by thinking.

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5 minutes. Man

Can't say that I've ever seen that before. alive - -

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How about - Let me give it a VERB 40 NOUN 20? Let's not - let's not do anything into orbit - Yes. Let's just lock it up. Huh? C tI_JI _ I II./,-! q:_,_r'_li,_ until we get

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Let's

lock

it up. let the ground worry We won't about - -

No, let's

12, Houston. COI call. Okay. words down;

be sending

you an S-IVB to

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Understand. And can you give us some good like let's get the DSKY, I mean the IMU, calmed it's rolling all over the place. And if you do a mode IV, it'll be on

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Okay, Pete. the backup.

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Yes, no sweat. Okay, good show.

I got a good

SCS.

I got a little vibration of some kind chugging along here; minding her own business, though. How's Okay, the pressures? Pete.

Okay. Stand by, Al, for gim - 12 - God darn Almightyl (Laughter) You know what it did? I know what it is; it knocked it just took all the fuel cells off the llne - Yes, it did. Yes, but what the hell did it? Apollo 12, Houston. cut-off, 9 plus ll. Level sense arm, 8 plus 37; Wasn't that something, babe?

There was no sense reading them because there I was - I was looking at this; A1 was looking there - Everything looked great all the lights on - 12, Houston. jectory; your (laughter)

was over

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except we had

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You're right smack dab on the traIU's doing a beautiful job.

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Okay. We're all chuckling up here over the lights; we all said there were so many on, we couldn't read them. How about a VERB 40 NOUN 20 or something lock up that - Houston. Okay. Roger. Going to O_WI Delta. Give us 0MNI Delta. to - to

I got a resta_'t - I got a RESTART PROGRAM alarm, and all ... - there's the GIMBAL LOCK. Get it out of gimbal lock .... my timer, I ... Well, ... ... 36. Shutdown. We've got less than a minute off to shutdown. this one's running.

Now get the gimbal motors Got about Yes, sir. Well, a half a g. We're getting

... - - -

I'll tell you one thing

- - just do it right. - - ... right. ... Yes. Let's get ahead. get ... right behind the eight-ball and

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Cabin pressure Yes, we ought Houston. 35.

looks

good. here in about - -

to get shutdown 11 plus 35.

Cutoff,

11 plus 35. Roger-Roger. turned up on the S-IVB. I hope we can iron out - I hope. Yes, I do too .... I don't either. I think it just fell off. Maybe

We get this platform

-

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it was the low voltage; it got hit.

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Okay.

Stand by for shutdown. 31, 32 ...

Stand by. There

it is -

SHUTDOWN. TIME SKIP

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02:25:27. Roger, and as soon as we get into darkness, we'll give you the other P52, sir. Roger. Don't forget OPTION OPTION 3. 3, Pete.

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Roger-Roger.

Okay. My mistake is putting all this junk in this pocket, but this is the obvious pocket to put the goody. Well, you did take a long time. Give me a paper ... the EMS? Good boy. Down in that right-hand lower pocket this there, too - and this. ... right-hand Right - How come you got that pocket one, huh? over there? This lower pocket? of mine. Put ... - -

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GDC ALIGN. Ail right, I'll do that, right now. By-by, see you at Carnarvon. Here's a couple of more data for this. Lower your Okay. foot if you can.

Let me take this book Okay. ... all the other ... had a book I bet old baby consoles. Bet they did.

out.

stuff

in.

in there. ... and guys almost fell off their

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They weren't the only ones that almost their consoles. Okay, got to align Why bother? the GDC.

fell off

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Why do you want

to do another

alignment?

It's the time - it's the time Pete. (Laughter) I was kidding, VERB 48, ENTER. What

you said you wanted,

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...; I was kidding.

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are you doing with the DSKY,

now?

I'm loading it. 31102, all balls, zero, PRO; 63479, 32563, PRO. Gimbal angles are minus 5.4, plus 1.33. Good. Set ORDEAL. VERB 83, ENTER; VERB 83, ENTER. At Canary LOS, we're supposed to do this, and I'm supposed to bring the pyro's up and on, translational control Power up and on. After align you put all that in the DSKY, - I'll do my

I'll bet they did when you started about 18 lights. (Laughter) (Laughter) That platform-

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Ail right, Dick Gordon, the computer is yours, and I'm arming the pyro's, gang. Be advised the pyro's are armed. Now, ... TRANS CONTROL POWER is coming up and ON; ROT CONTROL POWER is going to AC/DC; ROT CONTROL POWER, DIRECT, to MAIN A/MAIN B; LAUNCH VEHICLE INDICATOR/GPI, S-II/S-IVB, verify; it is; LAUNCH VEHICLE GUIDANCE should be IU, verify. ... Circuit breakers (clears throat) - No, wait a minute; I'm right at the place where I got to stop, right now. Ail right, no DIRECT ULLAGE breakers yet. Stop right there. Pick it up again after Dick Gordon gets done his namby-pamby - Well, there's P52 ..., and I don't see a single star.

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... right

over.

Got it in the sextant?

Yes, sure have. Isn't that interesting! in the telescope? I have. Why don't you look back

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It's not in the telescope,

Pete, still, out

Well, you got a lot of daylight there, Dick.

on you,

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I couldn't see a damn thing in the telescope, I don't see any star right now. Okay, ... - -

... make a pair? How about - I wonder if Enif would be there? That's on the other side of - Well, let's see if Enif would You could ENTER and load Enif.

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Now, let's see, here. Enif - I think we could do that. 44 is Enif. Shaft is - is 18; trunnion is 45. I don't - 181 and 45 - I don't know if I'll make that or not. We will shortly, though. No, it's going out Yes, there it is. Right in the middle of the crosshairs. We got - yaw drift. Who has? Dick does - ... Yes. It's - old star Enif is right in the middle

That sextant is gorgeous. In the middle of the sextant. But I sure don't have anything in the tele - No wonder I had a hard time the first time around. Yes, if you look out in the daytime, you see. Huh? Look out that thing ... terrible. in the daytime, you ... see you see what

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Man, I'm telling you there isn't anything in the telescope. And that star is as bright as it can be in that sextant. Well, be glad it's that way and not the other way. PROGRAM alarm again. It's going out past 50 degrees, that's go to ZERO OPTICS. Little hot. Yes, but now I'm cooling CABIN TEMP in - in AUTO. off a little. all right ...

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I'm going to put this thing

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CABIN

TR_P in AUTO?

- - back to P00 in this, and I'm going to stow these optics for this - Dick Gordon, Yes. Yes. Huh? ... bag. ... There you go. to housekeep in should I put the CABIN TEMP to cool it off? in AUT_?

The best part of all was A1 Bean kept saying, back there this little voice kept saying, "I have power my buses; I have power on my buses" (laughter). (Laughter) And I kept looking No wonder Huh? I had the shaft and trunnion ... · the shaft at all those and trunnion lights ... and ... - -

Funny how slow you think There they go. ... It Just takes you a while It does. ...

to get going,

that's

all.

It's not a natural environment, my friend. You haven't been here before. Neither has anybody else, for very long. Get that freaker in there somehow or another, where it's going to stay - until somebody ... it - You're not going to leave it there for TLI, are you?

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Oh, no, I just want to set it there, now. I want - I got to figure out what I got to do, so I'll be ready. ..., how about radiators, water ... and all those Put that in - -

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I'll check - I'll check them again. there.

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Hey, you got some room to put some goodies up in your place? How about putting this lunar landmark map up - up there in the stowage place? Yes, that's a good idea .... right now ....

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Get all that in ... in the overhead check the - Put that up there. EDS POWER; Here's Yes, TRANSLUNAR INJECT.

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EDS POWER

is ON.

a couple more.

all right. I'll get out

If you want to get out the card book, the proper card. For what? For TV and stuff. What cards are that? Do you have You've

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cards

for TV?

For that camera and stuff. taking pictures. Okay. ...

got to start

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... bright ... and I'm at the same place card as I am in this book. See if we got any other You want any other ... that card? place ... it is.

It's down to 553, now. I know what What it looks like. going to stabilize at?

did we say we're

4.9 or something? Had a rate valve Boy, I heard that that was high. ... I heard.

That was the last thing

That was the last thing I heard, too, because that was about the time all the lights came on. I was saying to myself at the time, "Bean, you're sure cool to notice that." Right on schedule, I was watching it at 25 seconds. You were really proud of yourself, huh? I got to

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Oh, it was great up to there go back - Well, we got everything back,

(laughter).

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gang.

- - I got to go back for a second ride just to see oops again (laughter). If there's one like that again, really want to go back, do you? (Laughter) It didn't bother I don't think you'll

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me that badly.

There was nothing you could do; you were just a ..., I told you I was ... at the time. What else do you need, Al? That's it, I - that bag away then, pal. Get rid of it.

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Make

sure that's

all of it.

I knew we were going in - I don't even think - Dick Gordon said something about that tower, and I was still watching. You see that tower Yes. Yes, go up, that's - disappear.

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I kind of glanced

up and saw that to see it.

I looked

out some on the launch

I didn't know where we were, what we were doing; knew that 3:18 was time to get rid of the tower (laughter). Listen, I won't I hope I got everything vouch for it. locked up, gang.

I just

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That'll make it - (Laughter) That'll give them something to write about tonight (laughter). Boy, there's Yes. ... starch. Hey, where What's did all that come from? a lot of it.

Shoot; 2 hours and 6 minutes ago, you'd have been satisfied with a safe abort. Now, you want to do TLI.

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The what

abort? Safe abort.

(Laughter)

Oh, safe abort. Time base 6 starts at 02:37:42.

Hey, we're almost there now. You want to use this handy-dandy little program in the computer? Might as well. And get all good things done?

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I'm down at - I'm down at Carnarvon AOS 02:25, where I push in the DIRECT ULLAGE breakers; I got the event timer set to 51, and then the ... - ... stay up there No. Al, baby, you put that in BLOCK. I can't - I can, now that I've cleaned that junk. ... back to a96. Light flash, what's You sure don't but you - all that Junk, service ... module engines, out some of or what?

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hear those

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I see - you see those That's Yes.

RCS flash;

there's

another

one.

got to be the S-IVB. Everybody said they saw them.

I got a bunch of stars out my window, now. Let me see. Anybody I recognize? Upside down, looking out - That's the problem. was in. Looking south. I don't know what attitude I

Why don't we get some string You want I want Yes. some - you want some

string?

... Wait until after we get on the - of course, right this minute, but - -

- - just kidding,

- - get on to the - to the LM. - - get this out. Hey, you know, a big one. What was that? No. this is neat. Oh, boy! That was

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Lightning

flashing

on the ground?

It's - it's the APS.

Oh, the AIDS. It looks funny, because you - Does look like you're horizontal, doesn't it? There's Capella. ... Hope the camera's ball. Yes. And all those (Laughter) I couldn't Yes. I couldn't even read the pan - the panels. I said everything's on, A1 - You know one of my first - Hell, believe it. lights on. ready .... launch with that eight-

- - I said you got everything. I figured what had happened is that the command module had separated from the service module electrically. Something like that, I mean, you could ... We're Yes, off a little. I wandered off in yaw Just a little. gave us that one before.

Hey, wait a minute. Hang on. Get back here. You got your belts all messed up, you got your ... Here you go. What you got these I don't know. What do you need on the PAD, Dick? Time base 6 - pamphlets here for?

Oh, you got a problem. Got to Keep this AUTO optics running. If you don't - I don't - I hope we don't Yes. What ... Hey, Dick Gordon. What? What do you want to do, start this COAS, Dick? Let's concentrate dump the platform any more.

No, no - In that - in that and the optics ..., I want to look at this .... get the whole field of view .... There he is, the belt was right up the very edge of it. Okay. And the ... goes down here, and then ...

That must have been what done it. They're both spiking simultaneously. Because you know, if you spike one up, it takes the fuel cell off the other. Yes, and if you spike both of them, you got the whole shooting match. I think we just gave off a big static electrical discharge that Just drained the spacecraft for about 2 seconds' worth of power, you know, and then it just fell off. That must have been ... I imagine Dick. they can sort it out on their telemetry, it,

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Sure they can. They'll see what came off. - They'll know when those things

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I don't like this strap Well, let's move it. locked

in the way up here,

Al.

How about getting I thought

in for TLI? or something or more.

we had an hour

Would you believe that TLI is at - at 2 - Time base 6 is what? 02:36? Seven. 02:37, so mine ... about 02:47. do we start

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When are we going to start - when burning? Nine minutes later? Nine minutes Do we have after 02:37. at ...? got a GO. 02:46.

Well, the umbilical drops out; and, when the umbilical drops out, it - it - it - it just goes dead on power until we get in. Yes. Yes - It doesn't have - it doesn't get battery power from the S-IVB. I thought it did, but it doesn't. Right, Bean-o? That's exactly right; it doesn't. batteries right now, on

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It's running low voltage.

on internal

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Yes, it's running Uh-oh. What's the matter?

on internal

batteries.

... falling

off the line

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Yes, they can.

They get in that automatic

disconnect

- -

Hey, they've got automatic disconnect Just like those fuel cells. It's not like - it's not llke this thing, here. everything. We got those ... controls and

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... circuit What would

breakers that mean?

out of there ....

That would mean that your IMUwouldn't as you thought, but I guess we've - -

be as good

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I mean when we put power back on, we'll get power back on even if those ECAs dropped out, wouldn't we? Yes .... haven't thought of it yet.

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When we undocked here, I guess we need to look at that to make sure that all these things are right for undocking. Nobody's been separating that stuff. ... don't know. TV camera's ready to go.

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Okay, I can eat my sandwich. High gain antenna angles are ... verify ... - right after we turn around. Our RCS looks all right. operation

... I looked at my clock; it said 43 minutes 15 seconds, and it was stopped. Big deal. This one was still running We took it at 2 ... ... rolling right along.

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I'd sure like to have somebody standing down there in the LEB and see whether it says it on that other clock. It'd make me feel a lot happier. ... check it .... I'm going to have to force myself old habits and relax. Yes. Hand me that book Doing that, Al? a minute; I'll give it back to you. to get back to my

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Not yet. Just relax your - Turn loose. your normal park position is. You can go to wherever

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Yes, you do, you've got a different over my head. Get that Glad your S-IVB broke IU didn't in. glitch with it.

place ....

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That would have been something. ... PAD. You know, an interesting oxygen? 60/40? Yes. That Yes. Well, you know that thing happened the time for CABIN RELIEF, ... How come that? I don't know, Was that a water ...? right around the way we lifted off? thing - What's our

Somewhere after TLI, I know I get down there turn that baby - that WASTE VENT off.

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And I'll get them off ... - I'll get them off with the circuit breakers and you get over on ... Yes, you close it after we get out of - do TLI.

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Man, I recognize - Oh, there's my old buddies, Alpha and Beta Centaurus - Southern Cross. There's the Magellanic Cloud ... There you go. Yes. Did you align the GDC after I - -

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After the platform. out my - -

... read

Ail right. I'm going to wait until we get Carnarvon; see if they want to do anything to the DSKY before · I put the erasable fighres in there. Okay. You want the lights on, now? No. Man, That ... I thought No. Here, A1 Bean .... getting ... to it was the APS ...... RCS check. Wait until ... are bright.

The event timer's still set at 51, and I'm beginning to get monitoring for time base 6. CMP to the couch. I'm waiting for all this good stuff to start. Hello, Apollo Roger. Houston; Apollo 12 over Carnarvon.

- - We got 1 minute and 20 seconds, here, to S-II light on. I got to get ready to start on this. Up, start, even, even, 51. Okay. You don't Light Light off. off. start until you get ...

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Lights are going to come on at 58 - Hey, it's going to be interesting to see whose pulse peaked out the most on that one. Man, I wouldn't - I wouldn't vote for mine at all. It probably hit 230 at - Mine Mine - They're all that high. right up there. up there ...

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- mine was probably

I'll bet it was because Oh, I couldn't Nobody believe

you looked that. They were

even read them.

so - -

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I said,

"Al, they're

all on."

(Laughter) we've done, They They

You know it's funny; all the simulating and they don't give us what we got up here. that (laughter). They didn't miss my fault they ...

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got to quit doing didn't

give us that, our fault.

either.

Not my - Wasn't missed it.

It wasn't

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... I got - I got to hear those the DSEThat's got a - -

voice

tapes

off

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- - They got to be spectacular because be half voltage. (Laughter) ... We got voltage Quite on the buses ... - -

... they'll

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(laughter). to touch anything.

I didn't want

I know you didn't. Man, I was - I wanted to keep ... ... Don't make Here we go. Light on. that light should go out ... got time to get up and - I was trying

You ought to look out the window. Yes, you better, you ain't going to see it again for a while. Start climbing away from it, here. Hey, it's great. They got little holes on about the ninth - eighth day. Quiet, isn't it? Yes. You move fast.

A lot faster than I thought. Yes. Really whistling along. Times goes ....

Ail right. You feel okay in your stomach Who, me? Yes. I'm hungry. I am, too. I'm starving I'm thirsty. I Just - I want - I want to take it easy. Wait until we get in that LM. We got all the rest of the day to chow down, get out of our suits - Put all that stuff in the right place. to death. and everywhere?

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- - set up PTC. Sure .... 3 53. Seven minutes until TLI.

The GDC off that far? Yes, it's really bad in yaw. anywhere? No, I don't see those, Pete. Am I aligning here,

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It really jerks in yaw, Dick. Look at that son of a gun, huh? I'm about a half degree out in yaw, here, and that thing's about 3 degrees off in yaw. We can get it after your ... - -

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You know, it's funny; we've been sitting in here and not looking out, I feel like I'm kind of halfway upside down. Yes. Your head's full. on your feet all day. That's what I feel like; You feel like you've been

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I feel like I'm kind of - -

Well, that's because you're never - never - in zero g in the airplane long enough that you - your - Blood can ... pumping - -

- - higher pressure than it could normally do it, see, and you get - you'll - you'll get rid of that about tomorrow. It'll 53:58. come back ... Where are we on the clock?

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Better get my hand over here where I can - You can see about as well on the - I'll get that pulled down a little bit. I'm kind of floating pretty hard. That's Yes. Okay. There's Yes? an island down there. bad. - on a new astronaut, that's

And you slew to 15. Yes, I'm going to slew to 15, right now. Hold fast, loop - I Just want to slew up a little bit, and see what I can get in the ballpark, here. We go - Where Right there do we go FDAI, ORB RATE?

... high - a little bit high about i degree. Yes. That's good, that's to do it for the - Yes. It'll be high; Yes, I know. it'll Looks

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good enough.

Supposed

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come across. great. Here comes 3 minutes. ·

Okay - On my mark MARK. We're right on velocity; we're right on it; we're right on H-dot; we're right on altitude. .., kind Yes. That's what it's supposed to do. almost out to 10 degrees in yaw. Apollo 12, Houston through Hawaii. Okay, we're of rattling the tops of this ... -

Okay? Okay, at 50, CMC MODE, AUT0_ and, at 58, I went to the plus. X; and, at all zeros, SEP. That's it? You got one quad. That's all okay. Everything's all right. Ail the quads are gray. Everything's Okay. HELIUM all right. They're checked out.

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Helium? That's in A SECONDARY.

all of them?

Ail right,

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... SEP, Pete. Okay. We SEP'd. TIME SKIP Helium over to B. Watch those - -

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The third panel looks like it's open in the LM, right behind that RCS thruster. No, that's the - the second. Look at the Earth; isn't that sharp, Pete Conrad? You - you get the Earth. Let me get a couple We can see the whole United States, Houston. You got it in your window Give us OMNI Bravo, I don't have Okay .... Yes. Ail right, let me see, here. I've got the propellant rate, and the fuel reactor cell's in NORMAL, Al. Yes. Hey, you guys, what's What's the matter? nothing. It's all yours, babe. Drive - Oh, that's not your fault. yet, Dick? more.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Okay, I'm going off so we won't Okay. (Laughter) Yes. The dump is off; so if we get one, it'll be soon. Now, let - Is there anything you want me to check down here? Let me look around one last time. See if you see anything floating around. I don't see anything. jump a little to close this vent now and turn it get a MASTER ALARM.

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TV camera's in good shape. It'll hit whenever we start the burn. Okay. That engine's These okay? smooth.

Well, I'm going to come up on the lights, We just won't look out any more. Put that in the TSB.

here.

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I think everything's been put up, Here are these scissors; they could fall out. No sense in letting them fall out in the middle of a burn; I'll put them in my bag. Everybody's happy with their gear, huh? No pens on the overhead?

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There's

your

checklist Okay.

right

there,

troop.

... locked What

in.

did you do with

the scissors?

Put them in my TSB. You had your hat on for the burn. to do that. I owe it to myself. Keep the sunlight in here. Not a bad that LM. out of your eyes when it pops Probably ought

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idea either. Could be reflecting I just put - ... in there; we're

off

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Good idea. GDC's 6 minutes, huh?

down to

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Yes. We're down to - we're a little over 10 minutes to the burn. My ... a time. Let me see, to get the burn time, I need my checklist. Get on that checklist Really? 1 minute early, I think.

This thing looks like an olive branch though; you can't see it. When it was in close, it's - Big circular Suit? Wonder where it came from. about like this; it looks pieces here.

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I don't know. It looks about this big. Okay. Let's not worry

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about

it right

now.

Sun looks the same on this side of the Moon as the other side. Sure weren't back there very long. Because we're going fast, I guess, no? Don't know why it was. Yes, because we're going by it; that's why, we're not orbiting it. It's a lot faster than - yes, 2800 feet per second more - What do you want? Look at the time. Okay. I've got 3 minutes, and we're going to pick up the checklist at the 2-minute mark. Okay. What are you going to start on, bank A? Yes. Okay.

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Okay.

I'll be watching

bank

A.

Say a little word

about this -thing.

Well, I - I thought that we were told that as long as it did what it was supposed to do, everything was okay; but if it went to full decrease or something like that - Yes. That's right. That's always true.

of g's we pulling? Twelve seconds; we're in the loose rules. in mode III;

Oh, enough. we're still

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Okay. That was just me moving my head Just a little. Let me move it again. Sorry I didn't mention it. I didn't know it was going to make any noise. It's okay. Okay, it's 3 minutes into the burn. We're coming up on tight rules very shortly. Everything's here. We're solid; and everything down to 65 percent. There you go. looks good

Yes. You've got me all discobooberated, perspective-wise, now that we're in orbit. feel the same way? Hey, who's that big guy?

You

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We're going to have to learn which way on that map, whether we're going backwards or forwards what we' re doing. For example, we' re right now at 25 - We're right in at 25? -

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... PH, 39; so it's 14 minutes. Fourteen minutes Here's 20; we're right around in here. Now We're looking backwards. We ought to turn this map around the way we're going, see. Hey, I see - I see the crater ...

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Here's the thing; you put our map around the way we're going - see, and out your side you ought to see a huge old one. Where? Right out there.

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I do - a monster

- about three or four right in

Right here, there's the middle of - -

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There's one that's got a whole bunch the bottom of it, where's ...? That's this one - great big thing.

of craters

in

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No, it's not the same one. I'll tell you what; you could use this other map It's a 1:1. It may be a better one. Take a look at this one, Dick. Try this one for size. Look at about - 15 minutes. The secret is to point the map down towards the LEB. Is it firing? Yes. Why? ... set to hold. Man, it was firing. - with a central peak. Look Everybody complains, though.

There's a huge monster at that ! Where? Out my window; Oh, yes. the oneRight -

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take a look. out there; that's - that's - that's

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That's the one you said was called Tsi - Tsi - Oh, yes. Tsiolkovsky - Tsiolkovsky? Is that the way we're going?

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Tsiolkovsky - yes. See, put this like this, where this points at the LEB and then - -

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Is it a double

crater,

Al?

Well, hold it like this; this is the way we're going; that's your side - Yes, but this - That's not a double crater. This is a double crater; this is the big crater - That one right there with the central peak in it, is that the one you're talking about? No. Way out here! Look at this - you're right! Wow!

EMS has 1.0. Ail right. Unbelievable! Just think, just the little bittiest ones down there we can see are going to be our crater. Hey, there's one with collapsed sides over there. See it? Where? Out your Oh, yes. side - straight Ail clumpedfor this ahead, sort of.

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I wonder if we ought to have sunglasses It's white down in here, you notice? Where I'm looking is a - a higher angle. Yes, we are climbing.

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- higher

Sun

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You can tell? Boy, look at that black and black horizon; that's black.

It's the white I don't think

- it's sunglasses.

- I don't want

It does something, all right. It doesn't seem to have - Well, let's don't use them for a while. We may get - eyes may hurt later. Look at those craters. of action down there. Pretty out. minutes. Man, there's been a lot

It's 18 minutes. Go ORB RATE By 84 - Right here. - - We got to get Hous - There he comes; he's just coming in. Huh? There you go - How'd you know, ...? gain. at what time - 84, right?

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A1 Bean, you keep forgetting

about that

He thought it was zero when we looked at it. Wait until I tell them the good news, y'all They don't know that's the reason they got us, but Hello, Houston. Yankee Clipper with Intrepid in tow has arrived on time. Are you ready for the burn status report?

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That's

affirmative.

Go ahead,

Clipper. The burn time was

Okay. The burn was on time. 5 plus 52; the residuals - TIME SKIP

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That and, man, something? ... control Want some? Yes.

if they were hot, wouldn't

that be

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... freezing

your

ass off.

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Is it a super-do Say - you're What? Hey, there's ...? Back in there would you?

We're going to go through that we got every single one GO. Here's number 2.

data and make

sure

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Twenty-four hours from now, you'll know we're on our way down, Al. That's when I get nervous. Find that little mother - and I'll land it rightside up. You got to stop it if you're right-side-up ... Ail right. What you looking for, Dicky-Dick? going to land it

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Yes. That lunar landmark; you knew you had to get that out sooner or later. ... That food package is exactly the same size, if not Just a little bit bigger, than the one I set out. That means you didn't What are you trying eat much.

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to tell me? eat. don't fold

I'm trying

to tell you you didn't

No, it's just that they don't - they up any smaller than they come. H-I; where are you, H-1 - there

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it is, H-1.

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Boy, the Sun moves pretty fast, doesn't it? Moltke was in the damn - Was Moltke in the terminator? Right at the terminator. Right at it. fellow

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We're trying to track what? This little right there - is it this one right here? Good luck. (Laughter) Gad, there's stars out there; Hope you see the ...

It's radial - it's radial for that; it's perpendicular to the X-axis, but it's going out about 45 degrees here. Here, ... ... can see it better from this window, Take a peak out of that there. Dick. Dick.

...?
Gosh, isn't that nice? the Moon! Funny. Wait until you see it out of our window. you do? Right there. Oh, God damn, there it is -

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What'd

(Freight Train) Okay. Number Goldstone 3. ALARM. that Moon's all the same color, 2 ...

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H 2 MASTER

You really think huh? I don't know,

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but it looks

it to me.

No, there's some ... white - Look at some - look at some of the slopes; see if they don't look a ... gray as the others do.

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It looks a whole lot whiter over here. Even in the shadow; look at that shadow down there. Would you look in the shadowsl They're something' There's Wow, you some mighty ... healthy craters down there.

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Very big - very big ones. Christ, we're iow over here again.

Matter of fact, there we are, right? We're - No, we're not at our low point; we're exactly 180 degrees from the - from the - the landing site. Look at those mountains, Yes. 58 - I wonder LOI ... Wow, if that ... degrees is right in my Dick. God d_mn!

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look at those that

mountains! right there.

Look at

row of craters not craters.

Yes, but that's is?

You know what that

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Those are vent tubes. Yes. Vent holes. Yes. Hey, we ought to get a picture of that; seen anything like that before. Give me the camera - the camera. Hey, what's the right setting here? I haven't

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What was our time?

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What what

time were we supposed to do that? Tell me time it was, and I'll write it down up here or I'll miss it. point at 85:31;

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Hurry up, Pete,

Okay. 180 degrees 13 ... --

- 180-degree

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Give me the setting, f:4. At what, Always, 1/250th? yes.

Al.

Can you get that string of vent tubes of that stuff if you can. Whatever happened to that - here

- get all

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it is.

Pete, if you'll write the time down over here for each REV, then we'll have it out and we won't have to look back. Tell him to ... it here. 85:31:16. AOS is 52 - 7 minutes. ing the fuel cell purge? Yes. They're getting a little You still watch-

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thicker

here.

We've got to get TEI 5 block data, map update, and then that right there, Dick, does it. P52. Man, that's not bad! I never saw pictures like that from the Moon. They're all purged all balanced - and they all look good. They're

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Can you come up a little, Can it pick them up any?

Al?

I swear it's a different color over here, Dick. I don't think the fact that you're looking at it this way - makes any difference. It looks lighter to me.

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Sure as hell There's

does. in that crater.

a lot of slumping

Well, I had Just decided ... when we were looking straight down, we were going so goddamned slow, I just figured we were going to fall into the Moon. 01d, you know that has got to be old, old, old, old! It looks just like it was when (Singing) I ... physically, you'd really want to land on the back side. Look at either that - either a crater or mountain sticking up; Z don't know whether it's a crater or rim or what, right on the horizon. it was made, too.

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Probably What

a crater

rim, I would Al?

guess.

do you see down there,

You look through optics are going

this one - it looks like this.

like the

MUSIC 03 13 49 31 CDR

(Those Were the Days) Damn, it's bright down there. Al, and tell me the settings. Okay. Is it on the right settings? Give me a camera,

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I can't tell - there you go. It's 250 millimeters. Same settings? it was right on

You can go to f:8 if you want; the borderline a while ago.

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Gee, but this is spectacular back here. I was photographing that new crater that's got a mountain in the middle of it. See it?

Is it really? Yes. Is it easy to find the one you want? That's the trick. Damn windows Isn't That's the trick. me mad.

really make

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it the truth? sickening.

Sickening.

It's really Got AOS. Hello,

Hou - TIME SKIP

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Actually, we're - It's kind of interesting. Dick and A1 and I have really switched over to this time schedule, and we're quite happy on it. We we're not really aware of the fact that it's the middle of the night back there. Man, is that good cold water, the good kind. now. Whooo!

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That's

How did it get cold? I just drank long enough to start getting it out of that tank. You know, emptied the line. It's cold now; isn't that cold? ... P40.

I don't know. Not too well, I'm afraid. I let this thing get away a couple of times from me. Okay, we've got ullage on here. We haven't ullage before. How many seconds? Nineteen seconds. had

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That's what's going to cost the gas, pal. Did you pick B and D to do the ullage on? Just two-Jet, huh? Yes. We lost the TM - right on schedule. back again at 88:01. Are those the high gains we use? High gain - We should be at minus 71 and 206. on the We get them

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88:01 - Look at that! God, we're so much nominal flight plan, I can't believe it! Keep it up. 88:01, it has MSFN ACQ, Would you believe that? The burn was 4 seconds and that's

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spectacular!

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off.

LOI 1.

Yes, but that 4 seconds just made up for the whole what was different in the trajectory; it put us back in the right place, I guess. That's phenomenal.

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Where

are we - 39 from the burn.

How are we coming out? Just like you said - at 1700 pounds on the helium, huh? That was the big one. fast. I've got blowdown Oh, yes. We have blowdown I think They from what? Now it doesn't go down so

Yes, right over here. I can't figure There Okay. What's Mars. this bright There's one down here, kind of to the right? it is. out where Rigel ...

Canopus.

I don't see Canopus. It's over here. It's over on this corner, of Orion .... there's one with a big - Man, that docking target is bright. it is, at night with down south

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Dick, let's see how bright

You could dock on that son of a bitch no strain. I know those Those little bright. Twenty-six All right. Yes. 59 ... Okay, you did the VERB No. Huh? I haven't trimmed in roll. in roll. Okay. little things

... plus - 1 foot. Trim X to 1 foot. you get. Otherwise, you just take what

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I don't see any trim needed. beauty's performing. Gee, I hope the _ performs

Not the way this

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this well.

You know, they made a gross tactical error; they should have rigged the LM up so the CSM power could power the IMU. And you could bring the IMU up enroute and align the goddarn thing, you know, maybe get a good drift check on it and all that crap. Okay, all my circuit breakers and everything look good.

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Do you always take the radio with you and cut the rest of us out? Yes. The_rest of us would like to hear (laughter). it a little bit.

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You don't like this son_ Bean song. We'll

It's an A1

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let you listen to - whatever

the cat's name

is.

Got to watch the end of it; got to rewind; to shut down. You want to shut down? Can't we hear your That'_the song?

If they put this in - If they made up a Hollywood movie, just like this, you wouldn't believe ... - What do you mean? Listening That's What's to this music (laughter). - and ... - against music? on the back side of the Moon.

No, I'm just saying that - Nobody you've would buy it. This is corny, got to be hard out there. cornball;

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Say, the biggest thing I missed on Gemini V was not having any music; every once in a while, they'd pipe some up over HF, but - our old nickel-dime tape recorder there, I'd have given my right arm for it. What's the burn time? is 17 seconds - it - -

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Burn time What

... we going to come on with

That's interesting. It says burn time plus 1 second. And if the engine performs like it did the last time, it's going to shut down about - on time. That's too sh, burn not for us to n_ _ice it.

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They've

probably

got a handle

on it.

They may have, yes. Hey, you know we've an awful hot engine. And that very - you know, we may get - If this engine stays like this, we very well may get 24 hours knocked off our translunar coast - Oh, that would be nice.

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Oh, I'm sure it will. That had to be an extra hot engine propellant to do it. it right now; then we're to save the 1

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Yes, why don't you rewind in good shape. Okay. After the burn's more music.

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over, we can have

a little

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I like the kind of ship you run, (Laughter) Keep the sailors happy they want. We sure have. (Laughter)

... it down with hot water. Take a bath, sleep - (Singing) You got anything else to do tomorrow? All right, that's what we'll do then. We'll go for a little lunar landing, how's that? Unless you got something better in mind - a little surfing at the beach, or something. Hell, yes. Sand? Go play in the sand shave, get all cleaned up, good night's

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How about the backside on the back side.

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(Laughter) Yes. Let's take the LM down and land on the back side. Wouldn't that shake them up? (Laughter) We could do our old DOI burn an hour later. We saw something on the back side that Mas a little more interesting than the front side. Look at that! Yes, that baby The glycol really pump's back it. down again.

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So far, Dick, I imagine It's got up to 55. What time is it? Seventeen Okay. minutes.

we haven't

stabilized

yet.

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How much time we got for the burn?

Play that music Just before reentry, and get us in the proper frame of mind. We could get it out and play it coming down in the chutes. Wouldn't that be cool?

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Yes, we're here, Houston, listening to a little music as we come down in the chutes. Everything in chickieboo - Where's the ship? (Laughter) We could drive them crazy with that stuff. We ought to get (Singing) (Singing) Fifteen minutes. Just put the frost on the cake,

We got enough right now - we got enough right now, but we didn't have the reserves for midcourse. We were within, say, 1 percent of running it out of gas. anyway, So - -

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We're not are we?

... on the SPS for the midcourse

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We might

- -

I think for some disperse cases, they got to - _ don't know what the reason is, but I can tell you out 3f my ... because it said we had to have a - it said _ _ had enough to do it right now, but we had zero reserves for midcourse. And it said - you know, if we had a particularly good engine, they _uldn't plan on it. And it said - you know, nobody usually has that good an engine. It sounds like this engine's pretty good Most engines have been overburning, you know.

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Historically, here, we can shut down 6 seconds early. That baby had to really flat be honking. You know, our GDC seems to - Did you just align that thing or something? Not too bad when Yes, Well, you're standing still. is?

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I wonder what I guess ...

the rotation

I don't

understand.

Give me the water gun, Pete, if you got any - a few moments, while we're talking about things. I could go for another grink. That food - you eat a lot of that food, you put water in it, it's still - still It's still About dry. (Singing) ... and even though dry.

Yes, how about changing attitude here for a minute? There's a couple of good shots right underneath us. I've got a feeling we'll be in ... attitude you to be in ...

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Watch the whole setup. Don't want scrambling at the last minute.

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That's right. You always want to stay way ahead; I hope I can do that tomorrow. I'll find out. I don't see why not. We'll be spring-loaded to a think-ahead condition. Maybe he's right.

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You set the DAP? It's all done. The DAP's set; we're standing by waiting for 8 minutes, and that'll be along in a minute and a half .... and a half. A minute and a half. Say, you going to have TV on your window when we separate tomorrow? All that stuff, yes. Yes, you just lock it up in that window. Put the monitor over here where I can see you, man. Oh, man, the television in my spot right here in the -

No MTVC. Okay. Zero. ROT CONTROL AC/DC. ROT CONTROL MAIN A/MAIN BMAG MODE, RATE 2. And I'll give her a PRO, ready? Roger. That's it. BMAG MODE, 2. 204. Are we ready? three of them, ATT i/RATE 2. POWER B. three of them, to RATE 2. DIRECT, two of them, MAIN A/MAIN B. POWER NORMAL, two, AC/DC. Verify GPI returns to zero.

What was it? Minus 4.2? It's 4.4 on the MS, Minus 4.4? 4.4. With a minus sign? Pete.

Yes, with a minus, ... valves are about to close. ball valves start to open before

I can see these we get thrust. Yes.

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I'm sure you can. open. I'm supposed You're to go to? supposed to go

About halfway Where's

the attitude

All right, Just a second. to roll, 180, 269. Pete has the checklist, Okay. Just a second.

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Dick.

Here we go, 66.3 by 54.7. Okay, wait a minute .... 66.3 by 54.7; that's what the - that's what this was - 64.9 by 53 - Hey, look at that - look at this crazy thing! Look at that dome. Right here. That big ... there. Yes. Look at the cliffs.

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a big crater. going to - look at this ...

Gosh damn! You're Christ sakes! I didn't ... okay

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know that thing was Armstrong's ... do the rest of the checklist_ Neeeeee, let's

It's going to. It's funny to see this big machine doing like this look out the window and see it roll. Haven't been near a body in so long. Hey, you never know you're do you? No. Except for the Earth going ... maneuvering out in space,

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... go by. Now you look out the window Here's a goddamn Look at them! cliff and it's - kind of - weird. of mountains.

And on the fourth one, you should have In? DC BUS VOLT. In. DECA In. And the last three. ... and I'll read to you. Okay. All open on the first two. All open on the first two rows. Next row ... STANDBY Yes. And LANDING Yes. ... Now UTILITY ... Put a circle All right .... Okay. Next three They are. are out. around it. are in. is out. They wanted RADAR HEATER? RENDEZVOUS RADAR - DESCENT ECA.

CL, that's all zips. Okay. Hey, let me look out here at night just a minute, before we get this thing. Well, we'll get that later. Clean up those - Oh, screw it, let's keep on the time line. You're looking right ... but the hell with it;

I'm going to take off that ... - going to try the EVA with ... Let's see, we have to pull ... get it out of the way. It's just too much ... Okay. Housekeeping. Unsnap LMP's helmet stowage bag and stow next to Commander's helmet stowage bag on the floor - Velcro. Unsnap Commander's helmet stowage bag. What time is it, Dick? Stand by, Pete. 09:30:08. Did you get it? a

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Man, we're right on the time line. the other one. Unsnap ... I don't know where Yes, you do. Okay, they're ..., Pete. No, no. ... ... dust cover. Okay. Go ahead. They come off a PLSS. all stowed ....

All right. Well, never mind. Getting back to the unstow 70-millimeter film bag, top left. I don't understand. What are we doing with the 70-millimeter film bag? I don't know. f:ll - Easy. ... f:ll. Ail right. 1/250th at 7 feet. I don't know why it's 7 feet. Six frames a second. All right .... ...

Stow what bag out of the top right of the lefthand stowage compartment? Huh? I don't understand. Unstow 16-millimeter bag, remove one magazine, and stow bag on the top right of the left-hand side stowage. Over there? Never gona over there, has it? What's this book say? It's full of - baloney. ... right-hand ... As pukey a camera as that thing trouble than it's worth. ... I put up snap strap. I don't know what the hell you're supposed to do with these two bags. ... What ... Forget ... Yes, right there. ... the way it is, but ... the thing of it is it. Next thing is COMM activation. are you going to do with them? is, it's more ...

Would you look at all the water! It was all over, I mean that's water droplets - not only the ones that are on the LM, but the whole outside of the spacecraft's covered with that crap. ... That's it, Al. You haven't got a thing until COMM activation at 89 - at 90:30. got to transfer to LM POWER. ... 90:30, it says. now and 90:30? to do You

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What will we do between

Screw around. I got to go back up in the LM in the command module and take a leak. I'm going to disconnect from my COMM and come back down here so I can get down here and look out this window and motor around a little bit.

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... All right. this ... ... Huh? ... Let me stick this book right here in

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Yes. How's your tracking Well, phooey, exercises?

... 90 ... Would you

Have I got to take a leak! Whoo! hand me my red towel over there? Yes, sir. Hey, Al? Yes. You ought to look out the overhead and watch this urine dump. Okay. Let me know when you're

Look at that crater. that, do you suppose? that something? ... Somebody messed

Jesus Christmas! What Look at that crater!

crater's Isn't

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You can still ... urine out that thing. That's fantastic! We ought to take some pictures of that. I wonder Maybe Look what that thing is next to it? like that.

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it's part of a ... or something out Al's rendezvous that. window.

... recognize

I'm looking at you. You - you ought and see the - command module. What's it look like?

to come over here

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Looks neat-o. Also, the urine dump is still spraying urine out of it, you ought to see it. It's fantastic. Out - the stuff comes out at 180 degrees. Shoots in any direction. Funny. ... Huh? ... ... started. ... - I'm going to look at the flight plan. ... out of here.

Okay. I'll get it. Look, don't forget - to make sure that this is the ..., you got to make sure that ... If the handle's really turned the OPS off, why, you're sunk. Also, make sure that the thing's in there good and tight. If you don't, it'll blow off and run out and you'll be out of OPS. I got 5700 psi in mine. That's good. I rather doubt it. Boy, don't that test without checking the - hoses. Yes. Don't do it. Yes. It'd really bomb me out. what you're saying. run

Al Bean's laying sideways ..., you're laying on your back. I got to do a one ... tunnel to figure out which ... if I go through this way, I'm ... LM (homming). Get in there, you little Have Looks What About trouble making rascal.

Okay. I've checked the AOT. Okay. Go ahead, fold her up, and let's get out. CABIN RELIEF and DUMP OVERHEAD 's already opened. And that 's it. Ahhh - ... this one. You have to stay in until 90:51. go. Now, you can do it. Screw it. Let's

Al, I don't like this strap up here. to get in the way of the hatch. Intrepid, Houston.

It's goinF

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Go ahead, Houston. ... It's already out. to do it in the

Hey, A1 - see these straps? I'm just going leave them in here to do that job. They'll even better. Okay? We got plenty of those command module, don 't we ? You got me. Go ahead. I got it. Let me get this Got the stuff? Yes. ... Okay. Hey, the other thing, Dick; to pull these - LM umbilicals. Come Yes. If you want to. to come down there - Huh? on in, Pete. don't I'm Just about to. stuff out to you. Here you go. That a boy.

Can you wait a while? Well, where the hell I'm going. Hey, ALERT I got it. button. I got it.

I'm trying

to watch

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Three five what? 41. Hey, give me your camera with wherever we are. Well, we're at 90:36 yOU .·· - Just Yes. I'm going to have to go to three in a minute. Okay. f:8 5.6. Take this pen - it's going Here, let me - Here you go, Al. I don't know what your clock Dick, but you're about - 90:40:50 is what I'm looking 90:38:21 says down there, to be hot. ..., 0.3 here right the f-stops for

What the hell we doing with there? Let me know when you've Pretty well, It's going ... really I think

all that roll

in

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copied

the P22.

to be easy to do. smoking over ... again, Al; he's

Okay? He's getting rolling back. Okay ....

Copernicus

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Houston, I'm going to look at the latitude longitude from these marks. You want to incorporate wouldn't you say? 2 o'clock. Going to wind up in what attitude? 291 pitch. go. 291; we're Yes - - - all the way around. No. It'll stop and go back. What On this ball; them in the state

Uplink to CSM - we got an uplink. They gave it a VERB 66; we got the map update REV 5. That's the switch that's space ... Shit, don't cut yourself. sleep period? Are we kind of hard on the

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Hey, how do we set up this on OMNIs or what? OMNIs for sleep .... it is. ANTENNA

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Oh, there HIGH-GAIN

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S-BAND

SQUELCH,

ENABLE.

Got SQUELCH,

NORMAL LUNAR COMM S-band - ump-pe-dump-pe-dump That's done. Okay, we got the top; we did the E-memory dump; no medication - I'm not worried about that. Got the fans and all that stuff - ... Huh? ... Yes. Every night ... been out?

I told you every blasted Yes, but I thought jobber-do's - Oh, no .... Man, these hurry. I'm hungry pine. screens

time - taking those calm

you were

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sure are getting

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So ami. ... Huh? Have we cleaned that

Time to clean the screens. lower screen recently? Yurga! Yaah!

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Well, we'll see how good you were on the gosh-darn fuel when we get our update in a little while. I can tell you; I'm no good.

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I'll tell you the guy that could really milk this son of a bitch was John Young. I think that's all he did was figure out every thrust before he went_ ... matter with Dick Gordon ... you old

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Oh, I'm not arguing. John - ... Old John really ...

I'm just telling

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- put the bloopers

- -

Well, you want to leave these docking straps, and all this stuff out, don't Might as well. There's the stuff ...

probes, you?

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What day is today? what ?

Third

day, or fourth

day, or

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Day 4, meal C, is that right? We've been up here 4 days? Hand me your scissors, will you, Dick? Hey, it looks like I get - No, that looks like Dick gets a spaghetti dinner. No, I get something else. Hey, Dick, let me borrow your scissors, will you? ... box of towels. I ain't going to reach in - I think what the trouble is, most of the guys have been using

Spaghetti with meat, if that's spaghetti - it doesn't look like spaghetti. Oh, yes, there it is. I been waiting for days for this Better be good. You can have mine. Why, you didn't like it? spaghett.

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It's okay, but

...

You're a spaghetti expert in your own right, but the kind of spaghetti that you like, I don't really care for, I don't think. I like it spicy. The kind of spaghetti my mother used to make. Now what's Did I leave flowing hot? on again? the we like,

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the pressure

Son of a bitch. goddamn oxygen,

We're sure - shooting we better watch it.

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...
Huh? ... Boy, you can say that again. Grape punch cocoa - I'd like cocoa before I go to bed tonight; I got to make sure I get a good night's sleep. What's that, tomato soup or something? Banana pudding - Beef - how come I got beef stew and spa - and spaghetti too? ... Man, ... Eighty-nine ...? No. That's what bothers me. meals! they just loaded me down with it.

Oh, you stupid son of a bitch! God damn, these things are really about to piss me off! I get that cocksucker open, and the son of a bitch shuts up again, and I'm - I really spend more freaking time trying to put goddam water bags together than anything else. Okay, Richard; that one's all yours.

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If you're not going to use that, I'll use the cold-water side here while you - (Wedding Bell Blues by the Fifth Dimension) ... Son of a bitch. (Laughter) To hell with this. I didn't want to ...; I was trying to let the air out of the goddamn bag (laughter). What? one. Really Oh, white coveralls. No, you got this

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pisses me off.
z

God damn it!

This bag is really bad.

Hey, I'm in trouble with this bag, I'm not kidding you; this thing is really bad news. Hey, Al, would you stick that in the TSB, please?

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Sun's Why? ... ...

coming up. Ail right.

I got to secure it before imagine. Bat C charging? ...

we go to sleep,

anyhow,

I

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Now, I've got to cope with this thing This thing is really bad.

again.

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Look at that. Got so goddamn much air in it, you know, it's ... I can't do anything with this freaking bag. ... - dehydrated Huh? Get a load of that! Get a load of what? ... Where? Ooh - what the hell is he looking at, Dick? I first foods.

Yes. Oh, gooey, gooey, gooey. That's what saw when we started burning this morning. Hey, call up a VERB 82, ... at that crater. I'll get it, I'll get it. 65.9 by 65.2. What we need is some more music. shipshape Here you are.

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Oh (laughter).

We've got to get the spacecraft in a little while.

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A1 and I are going to break out our LCGs and stuff for in the morning. How about another tape? I got it. ... You want this? A bag of bananas ... There to go with my gumbo.

Ail right. ... You didn't order one. I think you said something; I remember back there not liking one of them, what was it, ham and potatoes? ... ... I wouldn't - I wouldn't whistle around the block for it. Especially after I had so much trouble with that bag. Ever Huh? Hell, it's - How come you got extra fruit cocktail? You' re the guy that ordered them for every meal (laughter). Okay, Would Okay. This is a hell ... of a ... ... bad you? ... on purpose. You run out ... seen a rat holer before?

Is that the side you can see from Earth? No, I don't think so. Earth can't see this crater, have us in ACQ -

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can they?

They don't

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I'd like to find that damn crater on the map; that's an interesting son of a bitch. The one that's got that - couple of - rift zones running through it, with vent tubes in it. We ought to be getting ... Huh? What did you say? ACQ here in just a second.

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Oh. Almost sunrise.

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You know, this really pretty. What? Whose orange? side of the Moon here, I think, The other side's ugly. is

... is off. Get the - I'm going to leave them just the way they are until we get all the way through the EVA, until I get back up here and then I want to take them off. For some reason, we're gone around the Moon? You'll know when breaking lock. Have we

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we get there.

Do you read me, Houston? ... the ascent you want, Al? ... Hello, Houston; Apollo 12. feels like there's stage from the handover. What do

Okay, what - what the problem is, is I - for some reason, it's making me break out. It looks like I've got poison ivy under those things and they are weeping - plasma, or whatever you weep; and the one I moved is the one on the top of my chest, and that's all broken out up there. Now, I don't want to take the rest of them off because I'm afraid of what I'm going to find underneath. So what I propose to do is continue the way they are and when we get done the EVAs down there, I want to get rid of them; they're driving me buggy.

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Roger. Okay, I've already moved that one, and m_ skin's in pretty bad shape underneath it. It's still weeping whatever you weep, plasma, I guess; and I don't want to move the other ones. ... That's affirmative.

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I think we're getting ready to lose you here, Houston. We'll see you on the other side at 101: 49. Go back to HIGH ... Another thing I was thinking about doing - Taping this goddamned thing's going to be Huh? It'll have been on for 32, 34 hours Apollo 12, we'll before side. he was - GAIN.

Hey, one more thing for the TSB. I know, ought to go in the waste disposal. Let me get this ... out of your way here.

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You could clean those clothes out right now and put them away. I think that's what I'll do.

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Huh? ... We'd be better off putting where the LCGs are. ... I guess you're You've right; we ought to just try That figures ... them in where the -

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got to shit, huh?

(laughter).

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I wish I could shit; I'd feel a lot better about it. I don't - have the slightest inclination, but I Just know what's going to happen. It's going to be the first shit on the lunar surface. ... Thank you. Okay, we've I'm up on the time, forgotten. I guess. See what else

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Exactly what it looks like underneath here is poison iwy. That's the best way to describe it. Looks bad. ivy. I

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Yes, it looks like a bad case of poison hate to look under the rest of them.

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We ought to get as much done as we can in the next hour because as soon as we come back out from behind the Moon, it's going to be yak, yak, yak, yak. That's right; we're going to have to remember to - -

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Oh, they got all kinds fired up here. Let's Okay get that waste I'm watchin

Time for my vitamin pill this morning. Here are your vitamin pills· Boy, I'd swear, if I didn't know better, that that's exactly what I had was poison ivy. That vitamin-pill I've got all kinds supply is getting low - -

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of drugs;

give them to you.

Why don't you give me some and I can stick them in there. I've only got three, and I'll have a hell of a time fighting these blue Jobs here. No. Hey, that's I need a bunch of ... there. Wait a minute. ...

It's okay .... Okay, close her up. and one for me. show. Get this thing started that now.

One for you Okay, Fuel good

cell 2 - 2, 02 - and there's that baby

one.

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About every l0 minutes, I won't - -

will be so clear,

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Be careful with that - should be on ... once in about 8 hours. Really? Yes, and it can make you goof - not goofy, but it can make you light-headed. Don't take too much of it. I don't Got it? need to be light-headed. In the bag, huh?

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In the bag. Good show. Okay, our waste water's coming down. Going to have you stop your crapping and shut off the waste water (cough).

Okay, we're all set. I want to make sure I'm not s_itching to anything else yet. Should be we're running happily along. Give me -What's place up. We're shipshape. the way. Where this shit doing here? ... the

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Get my freaking

towel

out of

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are we supposed

to do - keep the towels?

Go ahead and put them in that - put them in that waste bag. Those babies go to the lunar surface, as far as I'm concerned. That's where I've been putting mine.

You ought to really smoke this baby over from one end to the other, when we get - the food's no problem, but anything else is, you know, get rid of it. Like you say, if we could get rid of those turds, we'd have it made. Day 5, meal Okay, think Huh? A. I

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that's done, baby. Don LCG at 102:30. I'll start that about 102. Where - where are you?

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... at me. Coming at you. Right here.

Let me see if I - Don LCG. Well, I can don it here; I got ... time. I don't get in - and the thing of it is, I got to be out of the way when you're donning yours. Look, I'll help you get into your whole then you press on. Okay. Hey, how soon do you fire up the batteries in that bastard; right away though, don't you? We got to do that on time. rig and

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LM POWER, Straight here.

104. ahead for 3 hours and 40 minutes from

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...?
Yes. Hey, would you stick - would you stick - that in the waste disposal unit, over there? Get her in the We got aspirin Yes. Okay. As long as we got aspirin, that's all I wanted to know. I have a feeling that I may need it, over there - getting tired. Got your Oh. That thing's else. Here, or - in a separate bin from anything let me just snap it on something, ... for you. ... over in that other son of a bitch?

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Why don't you snap it right there? I figured it'd go. Mine's in my helmet bag, worry about it.

That's

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so I didn't have to

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Going to have some music to cool it. as jumpy as I can be this morning. You noticed! Huh? Jumpier than I was on launch

I'm about

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day.

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It is. You've got more things under your con,hand today, ... Launch day, you're just - kind of along for the ride. Be safe; stickwith that freaking list - ... Stick to the list and be careful you don't throw the wrong switch. Don't get in a hurry. Don't get too fancy. shit; you're right. here ....

Seventeen - in a 15-second period. That's what I've been running; I've been checking myself. I used to multiply it out and then I said to hell with it. Roger. Shit. What happened? Nothing. It isn't easy. Watch what you're doing. you; this We've got a 15-second turnover.

What happened? Oh, I Just let the parts loose_ It makes me sloppy and I hate to be sloppy in spacel Right? Right - Got to be neat l - - if you say so. We have got a pretty neat spaceship. The only bag of worms we're leaving Dick Gordon will be that big bag of - stuff here. Fortunately, most of this food is - done. Dick can handle it.

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Dick's a little Jumpy this morning, too; I've been watching him in action. I can tell by your arm movement. There you go - up, up. that little ... Somebody's - gotten to

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I tell you, I hate to see that thing

...

I really do get annoyed at those end pieces though; they Just drive me absolutely ape! Now, for your next one, did you want to shake the bag? Look at that. Is that a drop of water on the end of that bastard? (Hnmrnlng) It'll be goodto get down on the lunar surface and do some physical work. You know that? Speak for yourself; I'm a lazy son of a bitch. enough to get

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So am I, but ... - I'm just ready down there and You can't hardly Too soft? Yes, and it's ... like everything. to decide what we going to do with

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sock it up (laughter).

Hey, we got that plaque.

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... put it up ... going to put it up and the other one steps back and reads ... You're going to put it up; how am I going when you're finished? I'll tell you. That looks pretty good or something like that? step to know

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Yes. Okay, then you step back, right beside you. Okay·

and I'll

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And then I'll go out and grab that thing so the TV camera can see it. Yes. And you move it around view of it - so they

some way

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can see the side

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Well, what I really ought to do is, you ought to put the TV camera on the - where you're going to drive the pole in, and I ought to stand off the TV - and get it all raised; you can walk in and ·.. it all. Not a bad idea. Yes. That's what we'll do. step back, so

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I'll put in the pole, that - Yes.

and I'll

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- - so that - Here's the TV; here's the flag I'll step back here, and you can put it - step over here, then you go around, and we salute it .... I don't think it's ...

I just hope we find the old Snowmanl Then, I hope we find a place to land; then, I hope I can set it down all right! If you can set it down, you'll find a place land. Don't you comment too long. Don't let it get low. Don't let us get iow. That worries me more than anything. I think we'll see the crater; I Just hope we - hope we - I copy about 5 degrees' Sun angle, right there, don't I? Right back there's going to be about 5 degrees r Sun angle. God damn, it's going to stand out. Those shadows are going to be sharp as hell. to

a lot of other ... - yes, find it. Don't - don_t to get amongst them, a little bit. off targeted right to

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off targeted

right

to the crater.

right. going to be long, any-

If we got any error, we're how.

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If it's good and low, we can really burn and Just float along.

it up

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You know, we've got one hell of an inclination to the Sun; will you look at that - inclination angle of those shadows? Yes. Beautiful. Going to make it nice to see in.

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I hope so. I wish I could see what I'm - We're 60 miles; how big do you suppose those craters are down there? How many meters across the goddamn thing? It must be kilometers. Well, we ought to be able to see ours, this ... Let's see, our Sun time ... If we pull this owlshit. off, we just past

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could be slicker

than

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It's driving me buggy; I just don't know what I'm going to see when I pitch over. Take a look and I'm going to say, "AhhhhhhhX There it is!" I'm going to say, "Oh, freeze it!" I don't recognize nothing (laughter). Then, I'm in deep yogurt. Then, if I dgn't_recognize anything, I'm

If you don't recognize a thing_ I'll look - Just tell me - I'll look out my sideYes, yes. - - and you look at the computer for a few seconds, and let me see if I see anything out there. What altitude now? 60 miles and it's pretty damn high. And you'll ... That's that Isn't that - that's fantastic! to be in the dark - not that crater vent tube.

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Hey, and that's going too long after That's ridiculous;

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how'd

we ever get here anyway?

(Laughter) Why would a guy want to put his ass on the line like this? (Laughter) Bet you those prunes stomach like a rock. God da=n - d_mn! that! That's are going to lay in my

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I hate you, water

bag!

Look

at

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a deep crater,

that great

big one there.

Oh, yes. The one that's Yes. Yes. a hole, with all that tucked in.

You know, I think that's something that the scientists Just didn't really realize at all is

- - to be around here. One of the interesting places is over there - I wish I had taken some pictures - where all the craters were kind of look like where you shoot balls into mud, you know - Yes, yes. - - they made
B

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angles,

but they

didn't

- they never

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Yes, sir.

Anything

like that

- - looked real weird.

- - they didn't

look - nothing

They got the idea, just like you said, that that stuff caved in while it was still molten. Do you have a wet pack in the LM? For dinner? Yes. ... Do we got one before we go out tomorrow? I don't know.

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No. You can only have one wet pack; I don't remember. Ail you - Yes, you got one. Good grief ...!

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Oh, just got a vent tube. Al? Right down in here.

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Yes. They got to be - they got to be volcanic. But look how crUde this got. Yes. That stone is, like you say, billions and billions of years. Hey, are we maneuvering? What? Funny, sort of looked roll. Must have been Just like we were.

Did you find it, Dick Gordon, or did I really screw you up? You find that strap? Where was ... You can help zip it up, Dicky-Dick. Okay. Where'd Huh? That ... - what ... Right? It's a used - one. number is it? this come from?

Well, let's see how that one looks. Looks okay to me. Get in there and get this LM going. Don't worry; you've got plenty You're going to be so freaking game, it's pathetic. Well, I want to take - of time, Al. far ahead of the

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Let me have it and I'll stow it. Okay, Just a minute, I'll have music and I'll stow it (laughter). Do things right. A little music never hurt anybody. Get that up out of the way, Just like that. I need to get under this top bag, right here. Now, Just ... this a minute; freaking suit. squared away.

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let's get Dick

That's where these came out of, wasn't it? Right there. Just a second; I got to get this tidied up here. Just stowing your hose and thing. Going off the COMM.

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All right - crazy. This here thing has got to go in the - put that in the disposal. All right, ready. Just i minute, Dicky-Dicky. Are you

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There you go. ... Sir? I'll go ahead and do it with my hat on.

Now, what you need to do is to get in the couch; that's right. And I'll hook you up red to blue and blue to red. All right. Now, how do they tape these things, all the way around this way? Which way do you want these? Huh? Do you want them ... ? NoJust like this? ... Okay. ... Okay. And ... all these goodies. you with your snap. Meanwhile ... Okay, it's coming up ... Presley) And I'll help We could take that strut out of here now.

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(Call It a Trap by Elvis Do me a favor. What do you need?

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Turn what around? ...

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Okay. What did I just do with my personal Oh, there it is, ... Okay, both Huh? Take this dosimeter I can ... (laughter). ... ... No wonder he wanted a ... ... are off .... wanted dosimeter?

- - Right down here. What do you need in here? Well, if you'll wait about 3 seconds, Dick, we'll be able to do it and be ahead of schedule. Okay? Al, want me to close your TSB for you?

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Well, let me out. God d_mn, I was wondering why I was getting wet; there's water under the bulkhead on the - underneath the LC bag. That's where that moisture's been collecting. Keep man, suit head ... Huh? ... I hope so. I haven't explored around far enough to find out. It's all down the back of the legs. That damn ... after we leave on the ... ... ... going ... freaking hell ... God d_=_! Oh, that's bad news! That ... is bad news. My is sopping wet all over the legs; that hulkhas leaked right through that LC bag.

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Well, damn, we've for a while. ...

got to; it won't

fire up the ECS

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Get what? All right, tell you what. Right there by the center hatch is my sunglasses - and the helmet bag is up there to the right side of my pencil. Sunglasses are in the helmet, right there. don't want the helmet. That's all right. ... sunglasses? I need the sunglasses, a flashlight, and a pen. I

Let's go ahead and take the hatch out; you can stay put. Let me see now, where I can ... No, better put it under Ai's couch. Al? You put your hoses ... where they ... Dick? I'm going I suit up. How do you hear, to let A1 get out of here before

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Dick Gordon?

... loud and clear. Okay. Got a bunch of shit floating I never saw anything like it. Whose helmet's Mine, I guess. this, Damn. cheek - in just a Dick's? around here;

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Something else we'd better minute. Boots and ...

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Okay, that's okay. That's good. A hat, TSB; look at that son of a gun go. Here. Get it out of your way. One hatch ... Okay, Bean, let's

get this

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Here's the monocular. you got it. Hey, Pete, know where IV gloves.

see if

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why don't I go ahead and do that? I the hell these things go and everything.

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Okay. Ail yours. I Just out of here without - Yes. Yes, shit done.

figured

we'd

get them

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I'd just as soon go ahead

and get the

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- - ... I'll get out of your way. The Other way. I better get in the center couch it's going to be tough - Well, I guess you can stick it under my feet. Well, we'll just do what you can. Better shut this map. Rendezvous data? abort book and LM data. We got that

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God damn it! My time Dick. line book. I can move if you need me to,

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No, sorry. It's just these hoses are so bad. about putting that down somewhere? Sure. ... Everybody's doing their temper. a good job; they're holding

How

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... I can't believe

it. Set over there and

That's where we want to be. think how - Turn on tunnel Tunnel lights, lights, coming

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please. on. to get there. What

103:54, it says I'm supposed time is it now?

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Wait, now wait; don't let my bag go anywhere. Okay, I got you. I'm going to - God damn these freaking hoses! Can I help you some way, Dick? Yes, just get the goddamn Okay. babe? We can get in there We're just screwing hoses out of my way.

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now, if you - How's that, around over here, babe.

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Got a lot of time. We're Way ahead. I'm not even due in until 53 and that's 23, 24 minutes from now. You're not kidding. I Just won't turn on the BAT. Get all the other stuff done. Hey, another one - Hey there; freaking clip. Clip. Grab a bunch of trash; that stuff should never been hauled out. It causes more crap. If we didn't have those things, we wouldn't have as much crap outside floating around. (Laughter) Doesn't sould like the Pete Conrad know; it's usually (laughter) - it's usually, "Out of my way, gang, we've got to get going." (Laughter) Why didn't you Just - ... do it right, gang, ... cards are floating around; ... time, and it'll save us time. I look, grab that

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You son of a bitch! ... get that in there early -

Yes, lift it up and let me get this in here and then we can - There you go - I'll shoot this in here. Snap one snap back here. That'll keep your's in place. That's good. Snap this one over here get this one in place. There goes the thruster fire Yes, we're moving around.

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Where can I put this? Now, I'll tell you what I need. When did I take that last pill? I'm going to make sure I don't get my ears stopped up. Here, Anybody ... want any gum?

·

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We - When we get in, we want to cheek over all those damn - books, make sure we got them. Oh, I put them all in my mouth, Pete; sorry. Wasn't thinking. We're not supposed to be charging already any BAT, are we? BAT.

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Yes, I thought

we were

charging

this

No. We talked about it last night, called it out this morning - I thought he told us to start

but we never

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charging

it.

He may have and, if he did, hear him and didn't do it. Ail right .... Yes. got COMM

I sure as hell didn't

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... hooked

up.

I got COMM, but -

Hey, Dick?

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Al, Just pull those hoses around like this. That's the boy; that'll do it. All it does is block that whole freaking area, Didn't know I was doing it. they probably just

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Well, you probably went that way.

weren't;

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If I can get out of here whenever Pete, wait This way? Yes. That's a boy. Thank you. a minute - raise your

these seat.

- -

Doesn't say to in the plan. Hey, Dick Gordon? Now, where the hell did that strap go? There it is. Yes. Did they tell us to charge so. a BAT this morning?

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I don't think Okay.

Is it in the flight plan?

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No.
We talked about it last night, but I never heard any; I could - of course, I could have been off the COMM. Somewhere right? Off what? We're on LM PRESS. else. We got to go hack to something along here, we want to go off LM ....

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Well, we go to OFF here, Probably kicking

shortly,

I guess.

the hell out of you down there,

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God damn this freaking everything. Sure does, that net.

...!

Boy, this

... up on

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... set the clock. Hey, Pete. Yes. If you'll hold this, and Dick Gordon will hand me that T - Hey, I - I'll rig that TV for you. If you want me to, do what you want. It's in there. ... - Guess where that goddamn thing is? Hey, Dick?

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Underneath the probe. I'll go get it. I don't have a suit on - Let Pete anything get it; he doesn't else. all the freaking

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have a suit on or

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- - we have

time

in the world. around

Let me get my ass over in the LM - stand over there.

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Get that - ready to go and I'll rig - Dick, me that - I'll rig it for TV. Okay. The thing to do is get rid of these a pain are. goddamn

get

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things

- -

Boy, I'll tell you, that's everyone of those bastards - - I had three those - Wait, Well, the map's freaking

in the ass;

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little

clips

and - take

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stuck. and I can't.

I need to go over there

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No, you need to go that way. way you need to go. You got to go that way. You'll I know

Got it made. Just a second; I want to miss breakers. They're okay. Put your Put your Okay. ... Wait a minute; just a second. My shoulders are wider than the distance between - There. Wait a second. You're You're all right. okay; got plenty of room. all these circuit

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feet up; Just go right up in the tunnel. feet up, Al.

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Okay, now, do me a favor as you send me through. You're going to have to hand me my helmet bag and the TSB and - Here's Okay. Your helmet bag is right here. Now, do you want this helmet bag? Or do you want to leave the bag back - No, I'm going to send the bag back to you. the ... bag.

You are in, ... Okay. You might have to do a 360 down there this hose. Okay. Now, it doesn't seem to bother this minute. I'll try one this way. That looks Okay. Don't good. Looks real good_ Al. and unwind

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me, right Okay.

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I'll go get the TV. you want to get back get the hell in your couch ...

No, I better

out of the way. ...... I can't

I'll tell you one thing, believe it.

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Have it coming off there in just I'll put the interconnects on.

a minute,

anyway.

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Now, I've got to go over here and ... we got to move this whole thing to get it. Yes, I know it. Shit, that pissed me off! I talked about it before. Wait a minute, let me hold it right there. Can you get this stuff out of there you need? ... cables Is anything and monitor. flowing I'll get the my hose? ...

Is your what? Put my hose on SUIT FLOW. How's that? There you go, good show. ... leave that ... right where the TV now, ... Where is it? ... it is. Now, where's

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Right up under my ass Put that back Hey, Dick?

in there.

...

Wait a minute, Pete. Take this off my hands and I'll get it out for you. They've rigged this crap so it'll be up. ... Pete? Yes? Here What? comes something, just -

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I - I'll call you in a minute. I'm just going to throw one of the helmet stowage bags back, including my TSB; no hurry. Gee, Never I'll tell you where mind; we got it. Now, let me tell you the best way the TV mount is.

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By the tape. to do it.

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Is that all set up for the window? No, but if you hand it here, I'll set it real quick, and it'll save explaining it. Now, which way are we doing it?

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Put orange to orange on both. See, now, that one clamp has a little orange-to-orange dot and then the circular has an orange-to-orange dot. The best thing to do is take it over by the window because, otherwise, you'll never guess it in a million years. Stick this thine in the hole and you've got - What are you doing to ... here?

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What? I - I can't remember it either. Let me do the orange one, though. I'll rig this and you just go over - I don't know whether it sits on ... this one or the side one, I never can remember, but I'll fix this where it works. Okay, that goes there and this color TV one goes - orange to orange. Now, that should be pretty close; but, when you stick it over there, you may find out it needs to be on that bracket. I'm not for sure which. Okay? And take this with you and put it right by - in the TSB. Good. Did you want this TV - a lower It's got TV mount Oh, yes; I see it. on it. one?

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These windows are all fogged up; when we - when we come on with power, we're going to have to come on with the window heaters. ... The middle one. It says TV right f:22 ... me mad. on it. That's it.

We complained about this damn bag one time and they claimed they fixed it. They sure as hell didn't. Easy, Pete. I'm just going to shove it straight just not shoving it in all the way. I know. It won't go all the way. in; you're

Well, loosen it up some then, and move it just a tad. Loosen up on the ball. That right there. You've got to be kidding on rig. Come out any further? Hell, that's enough anyway, isn't it? ... TSB. Huh? ... Uh-oh. What?

Son of a gun - No, it's not the LM. Hey, look in that MED kit and bring me a whole cellophane roll of those decongestants; they don't have any in here. They got everything but that. I'll get it in a minute. Okay, huh? Just so we don't forget it. Pain in the ass,

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No, it's not - ... ... Bring this McDivitt's down purse ... is enough to make - -

Okay. Give me a holler when you're all bused I'm going to step ahead on a few items. Are you in ATTITUDE Hey, Pete. Hey, Dick, are you holding aren't you? attitude? You are; HOLD?

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Yes, but I've got to turn the roll jets to - to OFF until I get the capture latches. Got to get the latches and get the hatch in and bleed the tunnel down. I can't maneuver yet. You're just going to have to wait on me. Yankee Clipper, Pete. Intrepid.

Let me look. It should be down where some jets on here. Okay - okay, Pete. It's down to about can turn two roll jets on. Okay. How do you know when

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3.8; I

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it gets to zero? on.

As it gets above Okay. So it'll be okay. same attitude.

4, I can turn four of them

Then we're

right back

at the

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Okay, Dick. And as soon as we get these guys A0S here - I've got the fine torquing angles in, so what we want to give them is an 06, 20. Okay. Say, did you see those over, Dick? Negative. Man, that's a mighty impressive there; I'll tell you that. territory down two craters we just flew

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Oh, that - The big ones right behind us. You're talking about the big one, right down at your footpad right now. Yes. Yes. I see that. if I was flying at the most,

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I - I - I keep estimating that over the desert, I'd be about, 20 to 30 000 feet. That's what I keep thinking.

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Why is that?

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Sixty

miles

up. I keep thinking. you're I wonder how come?

That's what

I can't believe

at 60 miles. I can get myself oriented

I can't either. I hope when we get down lower.

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Okay. The only thing I'll remind you of on this one; I got to get my tracking attitude at 5 by 106:10. I think we can do that. Yes. I'm going to honk when wy get here, Dick. I'm way ahead on several things, and I think we can beat the rap here pretty good. What time's AOS? Forty-five. Okay. Right NOUN 20. Things about 46, let's grab a quick 06

That's affirm. Okay, Houston. You've been keeping tabs on us; make sure I got this right. It seems to me we're complete through 107 hours, or at 46. We're standing by to pick up with a rendezvous radar self-test and AGS CAL. Do you see anything before that we haven't done? Give us a secondto you're okay. review, Pete. We think

Okay, I think that's going to work real good, then, because, while Dick's not firing any thrusters for AGS CAL, we'll get the rendezvous radar self-test out of the way. Roger. Let me know when you're Yankee. going to start tracking,

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Okay, Pete. I've got 66 degrees' trunnion yet for REV align along with it; and it's got to come down to 22 before I'll pitch over. Okay, you know where Sure, I'm smoking ofs e. you are? out in front

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That's good. Okay, let me know Snowman when you go by. Okay.

if you see the

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Houston, Intrepid. We forgot to give you our RCS helium pressure. No, I gave - It's about Roger, Al. 2950. Thanks. The LMP was outside when I gave it

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It's okay. to you.

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He wasn't either; he forgot. Houston, Clipper, Clipper. Houston.

he was over here

seeing

what

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Go.

I was just looking over the electrical system. Do we have a battery A charge scheduled this afternoon? That's negative .... That

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Well, you going to make that SPS burn? battery A is down quite a bit. ... We may have missed Hey, Pete. Okay, Dick. We're one along the way; getting close. good job.

That's for an 06, 20, and then the AGS CAL. Okay, very good. nice down there,

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Look pretty I hope so.

Pete.

Boy, I'll tell you, I can't get over Copernicus. Houston, that - There's nothing in any other part of the Moon that we've seen since we've been here that even looks like that. Did you get that, Yes. TIME SKIP Clipper?

No, I didn't, Pete. They got the tape on. check it as soon as we get AOS. They've had the tape running on the back

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side. like

That was a good show you did, there. you did a hell of a job tracking. Thank you, Dick.

Sounds

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Well, that's what I'm along for, is to give you all the help I can. It looked pretty good down there, Pete. What time was AOS? right. 44, Dick? 44:39. all buttoned up?

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Yes, that's How's

it over there,

Lots of space. I've got the seat down and the struts off. I'm about to take this suit off. Dirty dog. I can get into it.

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I figure

Yes, I got into mine without any help, except for the zipper; and, as long as you've got the lanyards, you're okay. Hey, Al, where'd you put the PAD book?

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It's either in my little stowage compartment or I gave it to you. I don't remember which one, Dick. I always - I always keep the PAD in that little metal box by my right shoulder. Okay. Well, I don't find it. I thought TEI PAD this morning; but I don't did with it. then. you copied a know what you

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Well, that's aoout the only place I could so it's got to either be that - You might my TSB, hut I never put anything in there that. Or you might look in yours. Seems I - I put it in that metal box; just kind everything out and it'll probably be kind squshed in there. Okay, about

you to take the tape recorder to my favorite song. huh? country down there,

when

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Oh, you noticed,

Man, this is some rugged isn't it? You'd better believe it.

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Hello, Houston; Yankee Clipper,

Yankee

Clipper

here.

Houston.

Loud and clear.

Okay. If you'll TV on. Yes. Okay.

kill my tape for me, I'll get the

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I'm going

to - -

Plus 12 at zero .... Dick, you couldn't look out the AOT and - and see this thing. Hell, I can see the stars in broad daylight with the cockpit light up. There it is. Intrepid, Yankee Clipper, you're looking good. One minute to LOS; we'll see you on the other side. Yes, sir, and after all that jazz about the - the LPD, old Aldebaran is a half a degree off in yaw and a half a degree off in pitch, which is at the noise level; and I can see it out the window; no strain.

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Beautiful, Okay,

Pete; beautiful. off. Forget it. it with this

it's 1 degree

You want to mark it; you want thing right here? No, hell no; I know where Ail right, babe.

to mark

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it is. in this thing.

Get some lights

Turn them up. We don't need to - in relation to your

Intrepid, Houston. Is that new mark or the old one?

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No. That's right around the 40 mark. It's off about three-quarters of a degree to the right and about a tenth of a degree down in pitch. Beautiful. Not even worth fooling with. You just lost him, Pete. Yes. Okay. Now wait a minute. Where was I? my data, babe.

... electrical thingamajigs to get in here. You're supposed to put it - in back of the front window. You want to do it? Okay. You got to close up the slack. All right. That's so beautiful, Pete. I ain't Anything the Look there. going to look out.

DOI postburn report; he]mets and gloves on; CABIN REPRESS, CLOSE; SUIT GAS DIVERTER, EGRESS - Pete, you ought to move the ... That thing could fall off there and hit your DSKY, now. You ought to put it somewhere else. You can take and put it away, Except I can't. complicated. across that surface. going down, ... for all I give a - -

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Now, that's

Boy, are you moving

Here ... Yes, I can tell we're hear that thing.

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Put it in - put it over in there, Pete, in one of those bags. Your own bag or something like that; get it later. I guess when we get down to it, I ought that same thing to mine. Well, What's Why? What? Okay. Here, grab it like this. got that clock Okay. up or down let's don't. to do

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the trouble?

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Okay, now you or something?

counting

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Man,

it counts

any which

way.

You ought

to get - -

What was the PDI time? PDI time. Let me give it to you, babe. 110:20:37.

110:20, 110:20. Another 20 minutes plus 6 minutes. We'll be 35 in a minute, so that would be 25 and 20, 45. Put 45 in there. No, no, no, no. I goofed it. Put 15 in there. We're going to count now. Okay. That's it. Now, I'll tell you when. Not - no, no. Your time's got to go to 35 seconds. It's got to get to 35:37. And I'm watching. Okay? Yes. I need another shot of cold.

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Okay. Another shot of cold water coming out of the pitcher. It's too little; it's liable to come in too strong, babe. Look at this suit drip. Man - When do we get acquisition?

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We got it right here. 109:43, huh?

Nine minutes. Okay. Man, Dick, we're in the PDI attitude which is heads downgoing forward, right pow, and it looks like that we're taking a big dive to the lunar ... Yes, I understand. see that I can watch engine burn? it.

... okay. You like the way it looks, Yes, sir. I might as well go get the mode I don't II. old shoe?

I don't know. Yes! ...

want th - -

I don't want to do that. You don't want to do that now? No ... counting - up?

You got the clock 45 minutes

- 35 minutes

What time did you say the time was, TPI? 110:20. You going to have to fold that over. Lift it up by the camera. Other camera's in here. ... didn't roll good enough. it .... that thing roll. Okay. Just wait until you see the Snowman, Pete, babe. You've got to roll

110:20:37. Okay, it's going to be 38, so 38 from 60 is 22. Where can I put these - don't forget to put these - ... compartment. 32. Huh? Okay. We won't - we have to get this oxygen right anyway, Pete .... them. Okay, now what do we got - ...! Sequence camera. I've got that so good, it'll ... Let's start proper moment. Why don't you go ahead REPRESS, CLOSE? ..., down, but that's Then what? EGRESS? SUIT GAS DIVERTER, son of a gun set it now at the

CABIN REGs A and B, EGRESS. There you go, baby. UPDATA LINK switch to DATA. Just as soon as we get those, we need - We get them in 12 more minutes. ... As a matter up ... Yes. Huh? You got that Yes, sir. Okay. We're standing our pitch attitude? 109. 109. It's about 14 to minus 2. by to do that. Hey, what's in? Watch of fact, we ought to see them come

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this,

Pete.

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That's what I've got. I'm watching for him to come up on - I mean the horizon. I can see earthrise. I wish I could shoot that shot; it would live forever in the annals of our own personal good will. Coming up to PDI. ... anything ... do that. a minute .... I didn't write ... that in ... Become famous , right here. for this. Okay, just

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You wrote it down, Pete. You already got it on that other page. What the hell's the difference? It gets light here in a minute. We can see it come up. 43:30 - Can you hear us, Dick? Yes, i can hear you. You know, it doesn't look any closer to me down here than it does at 60 miles. I frankly can't tell the difference. Well, Maybe you're that's not that it. close yet, are you?

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Heck, we've

I don't know. than 5 or

I don't imagine 6 miles.

come down more

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I'll look at it right now. Fifty Yes. The AGS thinks we're miles?

The AGS thinks we're

50.

50 miles,

Dick.

Take this picture and be famous forever. It's better than when you grab the Surveyor by all of its pricks. These photos accumulate. Everything tucked away; anything going to fall on our head. I have to go to INVERTER 1 some day. Did you check out those good things I did? S-BAND ANTENNA Check is FORWARD, right? I did - you did - we did.

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out the good things

Ail right. COAS is to the overhead window; DOI postburn report was good; helmets and gloves are on; CABIN REPRESS is CLOSE; SUIT GAS DIVERTER to EGRESS, EGRESS; CABIN REGs A and B, EGRESS; and we're standing by for the UPDATA LINK switch. Going to get earthrise in just a second. You ought to have earthrise by now, Dick.

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Not yet. Oh, that's

I haven't right;

yet.

I'm looking

backwards.

I forgot.

Going to be at 109:46:30. Going to be right straight out there or what? I wonder. I'm kind of guessing it is. It may be another Yes, there it is- 15-degree inclination. I just always imagined it was right in front of us. Fifteen Hey! Huh? I thought All right; I saw it coming up. 30 seconds. more seconds.

Good morning. On the Yankee Clipper, reveille's been held; we've swept down fore and aft; the batteries are all charged, the crew is ready for work, and Yankee Clipper's reporting for duty, sir. Good, That's good. affirmative. TIME SKIP

You'd never know I hit it three times and it didn't, and, all of a sudden it Just did, when I was up there doing the other. That's okay. I backed off 32 feet, that's all. Cost us a little gas. So I got interested - I had to stop and think, "What did it mean?" I need to check the R-dot. And I went right through that's all. What's R-dot? that R-dot? 288, 288. that 100 feet per second,

Hey, Clipper. 280 - We're 50 - - - we got a good solution. Tell you what happened to us there. A1 went to close the main shutoffs and system A indicated barber pole, and I started to do something with him and I didn't shut off the ascent engine and we smoked - overburned about 32 feet, but I backed it all out and looks like we're nominal. What did they give us for a nominal CSI before? kg, right? smoking right along; it looks like - -

178, CLEAR, 316, plus 01780. I hope we make a good AGS solution here. Like to do it. CLEAR. 415, plus 10 000. Standing by to make the next set of marks. Okay, Pete. Things are looking good. Man, it was spectacular looking out. You should have seen that descent stage - that - all that jazz. I saw it.

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Did you? And then it - when we pitched over, could see the descent stage like you said. Yes, I couldn't see it. would'va been fantastic. stopped - -

I

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That camera stopped. It I don't know when it

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Son of a bitch! Pile of Junk. Really pisses you off, doesn't a fantastic it? to show somebody.

It does, that's

thing

27. I'm going to take an R-dot that'd be 253, 254, 252, CLEAR, Two more marks for you. Okay. ENTER. What'd ... Did you see us lift off? Negative. Hey, Okay. That main shutoff valve ... See that? 173, 873 miles, you do, break

CLEAR, 503, minus 1682, ENTER. I did that I bombed that damn AGS right there.

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did you do?

I entered a RANGE instead of a RANGE RATE. Let me see what it says - let me see what it says. R-dot. See, bombed the hell out of it. Well, put it right back in again. it. Hurry. Put in - push a right It won't Why? Watch bring it. It drives it way out; there's it back. Just give me an update. I can't do it right now. no way to work. It won't bomb RANGE RATE in.

Huh? Oh, no, I just let it - I'm flying was Just trying to save some gas. Yes, well, much. we're off ... Wonder why

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it's using

so

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I don't save a hell of a lot of gas. was low when we started. I'm going to go back into AUTO here.

That

system

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I think the thing to do - I think we might want to do - I'm in the 1-degree Bugs me. I'm ... in ... 38.8 How much, 38.8. 38.8. That's not very ...... almost good, Dick. there. exactly with 48.8? ... deadband.

DPS and ECS; CPS and ECS. You're sure doing I show 0.26 miies 0.4, so I'm going Got that. Hey, Okay. I was dumbhead for letting overspeed, wasn't I? Both of us were Huh? Both of us - dumbheads. I'm going to let this

Boy, I really like to watch those thrusters fire out there. That's neat-o. When do we - when do we come out in the sunrise? Right after Okay. Why? I've written those down, and I solved this thing. - right after we see the Sun. anymore.

That's right. I think you got to add one to it or something. I know we have to subtract one from your s. I already did.

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Not bad ...... ... on mine, though. seconds.

inutes to the

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How are Oh, yes. here in

- You

look

about set

half to go.

a degree. No sweat, it says

We're all fine print.

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I did the DELTA DELTA-T DELTA DELTA-T thing. Not too bad for a dope. I'm going to do better Well, you been

and got 45.1,

by using

the

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next

trip. us? cleaning up

lonely without

Well, just a little bit. for you.

I've been

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Man, we're going to dirty it up, pal. I'll tell you, we'll do our best, hut we are filthy. I don't really think it's that bad, though. Most of it will stay in the LM. I hope to heck Okay, Dick, I hear you. I see your flashing No, I don't either. light out there, now. it does. to burn.

Look, let me get the COMM right. Do you want me to get the COMM right or not? Something's wrong with it. Okay. I'll Just leave it like it was. Just - just all I want to do - 521 alarm. that? Freaking son of a bitch. It's in your G&N - I got it, never mind. Could not read radar. All right. God - God damn, I know what the hell's the matter here. Now, he's got it. number down? I sure will. Three, Okay. Dick, how do you read? Loud and clear, now. six, ... 144, all zips, 1.53, that's CSI time. Ail right, will you write this What's

Yes, we are. Yes. Now, where Only don't VERB Sure are, Dick. look, I got the VHF in FORWARD and that's we've been flying it, and it worked great. today, it ain't working so great. Why, Z know. 47, ENTER. There you go. Wait a second. Go.

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Wait a second.

Hey, Dick, it never fails to do that. I'll be goddamned if I know. We're talking to you fine up until 1 minute, and then you can't hear me. Now, it could be that, when I'm burning, my thrusters are doing something that's blocking that VHF. The only trouble start burning. ... too, Pete. But I think you and I have very poor COMM with one another today. I can hardly understand - understand you; you're so garbled. Ney, pull that thing to PUSH/CABIN and let me - I want to blow my ears a minute. I can't PUSH/CABIN be - is, he goes out even before you

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Well, yes, I go to ear. Never mind, stand up. I get it. I'm sorry. I'm asking you to do too much; you play with your AGS; I'll do it. I shouldn't get spastic over here, but that freaking PROGRAM alarm pissed me off. They come up in the middle of_ that thing.

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Okay. Now. What time 143:03, right? Yes. 01 - No, let me tell you. So, you came up with change, of - -

do we burn - CSI was 1 -

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a time of - for the plane

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143:01:50. Okay. Then you told me CDH was going to be 144:00:01.53, right? Yes. I subtracted 30 minutes and asked you 140 - Okay. 330. Yes. Say, something. That's let me - let me just - let me just check and rounded it off to 140

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the wrong

book. clock counting down?

Do you want me to set your Yes. We got plenty

of time.

This is a long haul. one. Just trying

Yes. I know it. to get organized, Yes. Now,

This is a good here.

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I'm - No sweat. knock

This job is a son of a bitch, yet. Don't the time; I've - Z've set it for you. Oh, wait a minute. Wait. Go ahead.

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Okay. I'll be setting it in 8 seconds, 48:30, counting down. Boy, that Sun is hot. You got sort of stay out of the way, don't you? The other
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You ought to put my window heater back in. See what's happening, here, is we're running on CABIN we're running on SUIT LOOP. That's If we mode, isn't let's right. want to - if we get out of this dumb EGRESS we're not going to - Certainly the cabin going to fail, now. We've been in and out get. I'm in CABIN right now. to CABIN. Here - -

-

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No, you just went

When you pull this - PUSH/CABIN. There you go. screw

Of course, we could screw up the - we could up the suit loop, couldn't we? If we - Yes. - - don't follow this to EGRESS. We need those window say. Yes. them. Oh. It's funny; crap, and I'd better

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go back

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heaters,

though,

Just like you

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the other

guys never had to use

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We maneuvering

somewhere,

huh?

No?

Okay.

There you go; that's 1.53. Okay. Yes.

- see that's

the T. at CDH, lg

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... see you in the telescope. You - you see us in the telescope? Yes. ENTER, 136.5.

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Damn, Dick. Do you - I - I just don't know what in the hell is wrong with this VHF COMM. We should have super COMM. And I'll tell you, it really makes me mad. Hey, Okay. Ail right, I don't even know what at. I want to look at this - I want to look look at this book just a second.

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When you did your P76, Dick, with my burn in it, did you get any NOUN 49's afterwards, or did it come right up with a good state vector? No. I got a good one .... understand you. God darn, you're garbled.

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I can't

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So are you. Hey, Al, what's - Let's screw around with something over there. How about the VHF SQUELCHes or something? Why don't we try that? No, the SQUELCH only applies And we always hear him. Well, he's got SQUELCH to us hearing him.

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over there,

too - -

That's right, so he should screw with his. It doesn't have anything to do with our transmitter. Since we always hear him - Yes. ... - - he's transmitting He's coming Okay. Roger. Okay. to us on what, A? Well - -

I'll be with you in a second .... When do we get A0S, A0S is due right 16. pretty quick?

- there. now. What's our pitch attitude?

Should be right verify COMM.

FORWARD, 1477

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Pitch attitude is 145. Gosh, I think there is something wrong with my CSI program - CDH program. That baby has really been thinking. Sure you got the right could - numbers in there? You

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There's no numbers, you know, it just comes up with it. There it is. Look at that. Dick, it shows me 17 mi - 17.1 mile DELTA-H, B8 minutes and 58 seconds to DPI, and it's only a slip of - Well, it makes it 50 - No, it makes it 59 - -

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... look at these, Hmmm. Hey, I see ... I knew

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Yes, exactly. I'm not even thinking. that, but I - I thought you had some magic set it to. Gee, I wish I didn't we'll ... be right at 51. numbers

Well, we're within i foot per second of the ground_ Dick. We're plus 25.9, minus 1.5, minus ll.9.

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Right down the line of sight. You want the 59? Probably not. Okay, now, let's get a clock. Turn it at 56 - 2. Why don't I plot another point? Why don't you and I'll That's right; fly it for a while - ... Okay?

I'll give you a call at 44 miles. Looking 44 MARK. ... 1.8. Say, Dick, Right Okay. ... 55 ... 51 minus Three Okay. How did you do on your SO 1587 Excellent. I ... my signal Is that strength's down? 000.9 ... 52. Dick. we just passed babe. for 44 miles - -

5 minutes.

on, Pete,

minutes,

- fallen.

... pressure

No, okay. Just passed ... 2 minutes.

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Boy, I'm going to tell you, when I get back from this flight, I'm going to be super shoulders after this suit. My shoulders Just a little are so sore I can't believe less than 1 minute, Dick. it.

I - Yes - They confirmed that we could be burning and - and - I mean be drawing the right current but not have a light.

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Well,

I'm not sure it can. see it.

..., Pete, I don't You boresighted Yes,

yet? at 34 degrees at 29-1/2.

I'm boresighted

Hey, you remind me - or, Dick, you remind me, when I get in in front of you and everything and we're ready to dock - ... and 29 - - - remind me to go to my inertial - - 33 and 29. Just went 33 What do you want to do now, Pete? 33 and 29. Okay. ball.

You going over - Yes. When we get over in this ... this ... check-Here? Yes. Yes. boresight, Okay. Hey, Dick, how about - how about and I'll tell you where we are. right on - 39.5 at 22.5. - right there, a area, I'm going to

There you are, Pete - ... right Okay. Going to put your helmet for docking, back

here.

on?

I'm - I will ...

I'm not - -

No. I will for docking, awful bright around it. I know it, okay. I damn near - panicked

but I - it's going

to be

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on the Agena. data thing

I remember ... don't want to miss this right here. Okay, Gosh, here .... look at the crap floating

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I have a suggestion ... that last one. I'll bet if you could ... you could use it a little bit in the simulator. Final COMP, Dick, on the last midcourse. Hey, Pete. We've made - Look at that C02 gage. - -

Roger. That's the end of the TV show, we've some work to do. Hey, I'll do ... for a while, ...

got

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Hello,

there - TIME SKIP of other

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Okay. stuff

Now, A1 - we got to bag up a bunch ... - -

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Say, did they want us to - these cameras - do they want us to send them off? Take the ... of this little bag, too, or just take them out and dust them and put them in that bag?

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No, no, it says just dust and - the bags. If you take it out of this bag, and dust it and put it in that bag. No, I think it all goes in - the double bag. In other words, you put that bag inside the one that I just gave you. Okay. Did - did I - did I have it? tape to fasten it with? No. Now, this one's ... Did I hand you the

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Intrepid;

Roger. What the hell ... ask that

Is that the ...? little ... Oh, I know what Now, there's meter.

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they did, holder

... things for the 70 milli-

three

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I've got them right here. And there's two holders for 70 millimeter. gotten to

if you'll hand me - the contingency samples and a little jobber-do, I'll put those in it.

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Man, that The contingency Don't bother samples. them.

dusting

... see that one? Okay, I'll tell you what, you'd better open it. You look at - my hands are filthy, now (laughter). It's ... juggling act (laughter). Nobody but a mule who worked like a mule would ... Look at all this shit that comes out of this contingency sample. This stuff? of it; probably got it just ...

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I'm sure we got part Yes.

Now, let me have your CO_ thing of your way (laughter). _

and I'll get out

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I don't know where it is, Pete. It was floating by you a minute ago. Here it is; it's not right floating by. Now, let me look and see ... no, babe, it's right here. Why don't you work up this film first other - -

I don't know where All right .... Here, Okay. I'll hold the bag. That's

down. ...

I'll hold the

the way to do it. bag.

Go ahead and use another ... Hey,

I'll tell you, if I ... this one

... side ...

You ought to ... the ... off just this Stand up - I ... where you're going This bag's got a hole in it .... You have problems. They're Okay. ... (Laughter) I wish I had a freaking just hooked up in-between.

Hey, wait, you know where that right back where it came from. I can't get at it right What? I can't get at it. He's freaking mad at me because this gear (laughter). ... DEPRESS .... Let's Yes. No. Okay. clean that off. now.

Hey , Dick? Yes. Put - put this baby Okay. You didn't have the bag ... back. Huh? Did it work? No. Huh? We didn't get any so we had to bring Worked for about 5 minutes and quit. Is that why you brought it back? No freaking it back. It didn't work. We got no TV. ... in the big bag. It's dirt.

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Yes, he wanted us to bring it back. TV after I got off the ladder. Whoops! Yes. What's Okay, the ... smoke two of these ... figures? Okay, Al?

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I think I'd better though .... Just get everything Okay, ...

boxes here,

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that we'd want.

There ain't nothing in that one. Where are we going to put all these empty pilot preference bags that we bring back? We got a kind of a garbage bag for them? Yes, we'll have to - figure out something.

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Okay, now, this side's clean, Al; there's nothing in those two RCU banks. There's nothing else back here. Now - Here's all the used food, good food. That good food? Yes. Oh, shit, shit! (Laughter) You got something Yes. I figured Hey. Yes? I wonder if all these gumdrops didn't have pills in them; went to the lunar ... - You know that? I got that feeling, don't you? I have a feeling that you don't need that (laughter). I don't care, but I notice you've been good about it. Well, I'll tell you, I'm going to take some of this food back because we'll probably need it. Oh, yes. What? Let's take this food to the command be able to use it. That thing's holding stuff ... down there good, - module; I'll Let's take ... - that. God damn - freaking gumdrop!

Why don't you just throw that whole McDivitt purse, Al? As a matter of fact, hand me that stuff, and I'll hold this for you, with these here. But most of these have got to stay .... burn. Sorry. Okay .... for the

Well, what _re we going to do about these we take them both ... suits, right?

gloves;

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We got to take our gloves. Hey, there's a regular checklist on how to do that there, someplace. There's a main checklist, I've been reading it. The minute I start reading it, ... well, what's the difference. Okay. Well, I say okay, and then ... That's okay with me. ... just go to the suit

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No, I'm sorry, I didn't - I didn't mean for you to do it that way, but I was just trying to get the big items out of the way. Now, let's take the checklist and read it off. If you'll hand it to me, I'll check it off. Okay. Where's my pencil? Ail right? It says right Okay. helmet I got it right here. up there, "PREP, step 2."

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Step 2. Doff helmets and gloves; place stowag_ bag on deck, right side forward.

Okay. I've got them right here; when they get ready to go. Ought to be going with our suits, now. Well, now, we can get right on the checklist, because we've got everything already done. Okay. Here's two gloves, right here. on to that.

Yes. We didn't bring the bags over. We'll just stow this in the L-shaped bag for the moment. I don't know; maybe you'd better find the bag for that. Why? Because ... we'd better L-shaped bag. That's right. doing on your ...? stick them straight in the

You'll remember to bring your helmet. We just need ... and we ... 30 bags of extra rocks .... Surveyor bag. Vacuum PGA. We've received B-5 and 6. Cut ... to no gimbals. Hey, I'll tell you what I haven't seen are those neat personal preference kits. I'll tell you where Okay. One of them the flag. is on the very back, back there with they are.

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Very back, back there with the flag? a thing back here, Al. Yes, there Which is, in that lunar boot

There

isn't

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compartment.

one, the lower

one? Pete.

I think it's the upper,

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Right there it is. No, no, that's a PAD I just flagged in there yesterday. Well, look in the lower one then. Well, no, it's the compartment behind us, Pete. No, there's nothing in there; I just looked. just ... No freaking flag anywhere in sight. Yes, there There they is. are. something else while We

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Well s wait, let me give you you're getting there. Yes.

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Here's - here's - I don't know where they are all coming from, but - Here's the flag one; give that to Dick. Yes. And this - this is the one that got - this that we cut out yesterday. You know? Yes, why don't you hang onto that right ... What? What's that? now, and - -

How'd you like that one today? Pretty good, I guess. I feel pretty good.

What does it say on the checklist about getting DSE tape to the ...? Is there anything more than turn the tape off? No, I'll get it. Let me get on - lower recorder circuit breaker. Where is that? there Probably on my side. isn't it? tape

No, no, wait a minute; you don't want to wind up with that stuff in your ... Take the pills out of it; ...? Junk? Some of that belongs Oh, it does? Yes, like a - Take that and bring it back. Okay, I think you're over, and I'll offload it in there in that -

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going

to be

stuck with let me have

it. it

Well, I don't think to put it in here. We're not supposed

it's - Well,

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to.

Why don't

I just - out the best way.

I'll do it; I'll figure

Well, I've got a set of pills We ought - Yes .... - -

I got to get rid of.

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- - we ought to leave stowage. We'll there

that kit though

on this LM

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leave the kit in here; I'll take it over and then after we get our suit off ...

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Okay, Al. I don't they're know what you do with nice. these drops but

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... No damn wonder. This ... stays over here. If people saw this, they wouldn't believe it. Got to go do - -

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... I think we ought to put that clean - that cleaner stuff, and some of the dirty stuff and hand back the bag. Yes. Then, we can get rid of this stuff. and some the

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A1 says that we can put this Kleenex other stuff that's in this bag - Got a ... there isn't It won't stay stuck. any place

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to put it though.

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If we could get going with it - We'll have to put everything in the same bag. It's a freaking mess. Why the hell you packing Well, we've What got to bring all this shit? back.

the hell else is in it? do we need that Kleenex I thought you wanted it. and for, Al?

Hey, what We don't;

Freak, I don't want it. Give me the Kleenex, I'll leave that over here. We got plenty of Kleenex - What next, Pete?

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Hey, take that Kleenex back, and take the Kleenex out of it, and stick those pills in it. Okay. Take those Kleenexes out - I got it; I got it. The pills kit - here's the pill kit. Let's throw the pills in and leave the kit here. There you go? Just a minute That'll do the job right there.

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... but we have to do this. You sure this Here you are. is full? Good luck.

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What

do you want

out of here,

just the pills?

I want - the only thing I want - No. Let me show you what belongs in the command module. Ail I want is enough sleeping pills so that I don't have to fall on my - There isn't any sleeping pills in here.

Pete, don't let me forget when we go out to get this other stuff that we've got over here, Pete. We got the PPKs back .... Ail right. Yes. Put this over on A1 Bean's side; he's freaking pills out of the CSM medical ... do that - I don't know; I want to take He wants Tell he it. got all the kit. Yes. Don't forget that. Hey, Richard?

The blue ones. You won't be going, Pete; I've been pretty good here, as a matter of fact. ... Goodness went to .... ... You know how far we went today? traverse, today. One mile - I got all the Surveyor stuff. We - we were leaping over that lunar surface like a freaking bunch of gazelles. It - it's wild. It really is. I really got to where it felt like I was at home. I really thought I could step out of that stuff, then just walk around the corner to the nearest drugstore. Like you said, by the time you get good at it, you bail out. Yes. Well, I'll tell you, sure make I learned a lot though. in stuff. We did a 1-mile sakes, I don't know where the time

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We could You're

some improvements

not kidding.

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... I mean not only besides being dirty, Dick - Look at my back. That freaking thing is practically torn out X Ail it did was 8 hours' worth of EVA. ... feel a lot you Yes, yes. Do you want your Might ... ... blue bags, You're going Dick. it. Aren't we? lock or ... Strap? them in. ...

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as well throw

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to make

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Hey, we're not going to do any gimbal anything, are we, Dick? ... Oh, okay. ... we have ... What's the jettison even time? 3 hours for ...

It's better. It's back center. This one? Here you are. Can you see it? Get that utility Well, I - Here's light; we'll two of them. need

...? ...

This

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to take that.

Take both

of them. ..., if you like.

I'll take it

Yes, but it says take them. How about that camera stuff back there? Let's get that son of a bitch, too. Can we get that? No, I - I don't think so, Pete. off it? It's a - -

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Did you take the power

... cut it.

No, that's against the rules. It would be good if we could do it. Not these, though. We know it runs through this circuit breaker, so we could pull it out and cut it if you want it, but with neat ..., there's nothing that had to be cut. Okay. Just a minute .... Okay. Let's go. we'll both get the lights.

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You got the other

light

thing

set for go, huh?

Yes. It's in there somewhere; it must be it's ... this round ... Okay, now. Ail you got to do is cut that stuff off, A1 - Yes - - - take this. Yes. I got it. are right here. Yes.

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Now, I need my scissors which Boy, we got it made ....

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I'm going to go over and start getting suit then. Okay, that'll be good. get there - Wonder where these place? Dick?

Who has the book? What Yes, book? that's - Yes. something that should go.

Hey, here's You're

freaking

around with what? Think quick.

I got 3 days to ... Fantastic Very ...

interesting.

... it undocked. Hey, Pete? What do you want? Here's your helmet.

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I can't find the goddamned

...

No. I - I'll look for it ... they're probably right under my feet where all those ... garbage bags. I'll help it ... Throw that ... diverter Hello, We're That's ... Yes, sir. Okay, I'll get it in a minute. Hey, that in - ... stuff - that stuff that you just brought ... too, why don't you? valves. Yankee Clipper.

(Yawn) ... you think we get back? ... 59, four balls Yes, he was going There you go.

we got enough

... time when

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..., minus down

136, plus

38.0.

... off to the right.

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Well, they did ask that we try and stick to the colors to get an idea of how much ... That's why ... Okay, they're all white; really good .... I'd better go ... let me get some ... from you. that must mean they're

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... all the way around; I'm not sure, babe.

Yes .... The first time, you know, you said was after the first burn was because, hell, that ... never came down. I'll tell you, when I got - got down, you know ... looked over the hill, that freaking bug ... the hole. And digital event timer is set, PO0, SPACECRAFT CONTROL, CMC, AUTO. Maneuver to PAD burn ATT 2; we did that; zero, zero, zero; boresight and sextant

Hey, it seemed to me the best way to do it the other day - It was one guy getting out that window - one guy getting out there, and they both have a chart - okay - no wait - Hey, what - I - I don't know. I - I've got some of those That's great, Actifed - - somewhere.

Did you do it the last couple I did it the night Okay. Wonder what this decongestant head. before

of nights?

last.

has -

It clears your Magazine R.

The great magazine.

Magazine

R - -

Well, shit, I'll let them figure out on the ground I got a cold, I ain't going to tell them. I'll tell them I took the pill - CDR took one - ... 65 - - - decongestant 165. Okay, or 10 or whatever it is.

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I'm just going

to put this back. greatest cold on the Moon,

How did I get the world's for Christ's sake?

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Because you had the world's at the Moon. Who had a cold. and saying "Aw, That's

greatest

LMP with you

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And I kept bullshitting Houston ..., it's just stuffy up here." it, though.

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the way to play

And A1 Bean was - That's right, that's the way I got to play it right now. I'll tell them I took the decongestant, but I ain't got a cold, like (sneeze) Nothing, let them figure that.

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How come you're I'm only taking ... tracking. I'm just reading

taking 24 minutes to track 8 minutes of pictures?

it, and

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this

shit right here.

Oh. It's six frames a second, 1-1/2 magazines, 24 minutes of film. That's why he's doing it. What's trying Well, he telling you? Oh, is that what he's - Try one of those ... I don't see why - -

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So you know how much film you got, how long it will last, how many minutes. - - ... must be at least six frames. Must be at least ... in there and somebody will want to know it, so ... I guess so. They don't know what the assignment is, and what they do, they want to let you know what the film capability is. Okay, I'll get on with the film, now. Are we on the back Yes. We're in the dark. side of the Moon yet?

Ail right. When you come out on the front side, they pick you up and they track you all the way across, and they can project ahead. Okay, if you dump on the back side, you ... pop at it just like PDI, and you're not where you're supposed to be. So? They - then - then, they have your error. Right there, they'd know what the error was you put in. Apparently, it doesn't do that. It just freaks up the way their processers work. If you - I think that's what it does. tracking - -

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- - disturb ... point

it during their

- -

- - ... - The main thing is that the proeesser assumes that you're not making any DELTA-V. If you make it on the back side - Yes, that's right. for it. right. Let's forget all

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- - it can accouat You're right. about it. ... good way They donrt Oh, yes.

That's why they really They - they start - - ... midcourse We could burn

need it - -

that long range - or something.

this - -

- - long range. - -TEI PAD to REV 43 .... - -

Wouldn't that fool the shit out of them? Come whistling out from behind the Moon and say, "Well I want What? How many? Ninety hours. ... here - -

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No, the - Oh, 90 hours from now. How many hours to TEI? Shit, I'll be dead by then with this cold, the way it's coming on. They come on fast and go away slow. I'm going to take some of the best pictures ever seen, Dick Gordon. Good. Hey, Yes, are we recording sir. on tape out there _ Al? you've

The time is going, and you can't afford to not take a chance. You really - you just kind of leave it like it says. Because you know, if you don't make your move, you blow it, and you'll say that was the thing. You have ... - You wrecked it ... - to look. and - 9 more seconds if you'll shoot.

- - This is ridiculous. - - ... - Freaking words What Just son of a bitch. Mumble, mumble, mumble,

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are you looking looking

for, Pete? doing.

at what you're to make

I just want Yes. Make a photo

sure that this agrees.

...

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yes, yes. Acquire MSFN; PITCH, MINUS 64.

Ail right, Dick. You had your one error now; for Christ's sake, you better get Fra Mauro and Descartes. He'll get them. Because I'm going check your ass. to take that big map here and

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I had my error because I didn't read this freaking time they gave me, that's why I had my error. That's right. about it.

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I didn't think

Here we go. Okay, hand me - that P30 PAD, Pete. ... done more than this. Hey, I'll tell you what, instead of taking the pencil, take this pen and that'll make dark lines just like this. What's Fuzzo. Fuzzo, that's a - that's what is known as a foo-foo. to get that?

- - and then we went over to this one, and we went to another one up there and then we came back by the far side of this one again, and we viewed Surveyor crater and all the way around that son of a bitch and back here. Was this About a pretty deep - -

Yes. That's just - just what I saw. When I saw where we were, all I saw was 1, 2, 3, 4, that one over there and that Snowman, and I didn't see another freaking thing. Sure did. It looked just like it - You know, I looked up there and saw all these goddamn things and said, "Shit, where am I?" And then all of a sudden - _qnmmO! It just - it leaped out like a neon sign. Get the longitude, because I've found (clears throat) everytime I come across, if I find ... Yes. .,. and make an I, I can find the Snowman. I couldn't find these - this - you got to find this line here first, you know. Kind of a strange longitude. It sure is. The ... or something. Right over here; the first one. what's the first one? Descartes's

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Ail right. I'll tell you what, let's - What's the map update? Let's start - We have the .,. all we need is the meridian.

Okay. Let's look at this thing, because we're going to run out of - I've only got four more lines at the bottom of this PAD. ... According to Hoyle, down to seconds .... Now, you think that'll be on this? No. How about No. How about No. How about No. Okay. Well, then I'll just start - any of that? that? that? DA and -

... like a P30 PAD. Okay. Down to the boresight Okay. Now, That's look.

It'll be okay.

star. None of this other.

what I wanted.

How about

the SEP card?

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Where - where ..., Pete.

is your,

where's

your

- where's

your

-

No, wait just a second. just burned?

Where's

your

- the one we

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We can't - Oh, I know what you're

saying.

Just look at a regular one that we've burned; see. And it'll tell you exactly what to ... Take LOI, wherever the freaker is, SPC 2. That's a LOI minus 5. There, you got it? I'll bet you a dollar the TEI comes out that way. It is; it's going to come out with the LAT/LONG - It's going to come out with the whole know that? ... You

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Well, I'll just go down to the end of it and jump over there. That's life, pure and simple. Yes, it is. map? I'd like

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Where's your-target-of-opportunity to look at Descartes. Well, we can get it all on there, put it down here. ... - I got it.

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if you'll

just

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That would be an awful thing, wouldn't it? Go for 4 days without COMM and trail in there to the second at ... 5g .... the SEXT stars all up. Is that on that PAD? Yes, you can - Yes, it'll be here - - - SEXT star. It'll be the one with the writing. -

I'm going to pick that up before to it .... I don't know where where, I guess. I'll be ... Here's another

happens

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my tape is; it's up there

some-

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Jesus Christ! hell is that? It's probably

earpiece.

Who's

the

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mine.

I - -

- - ... freaking They must PC - Pete

earpieces? in.

have put 400 earpieces Conrad.

Yes, sir. Every goddamn earpiece - I keep throwing them in the garbage (laughter) and they keep getting back out of the bag. Here's the extra ... How about that?

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Got to have Not hearing

an earpiece it.

to it.

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Are my tapes What?

...?

Did you find my tape? What? No, I don't just didn't look. What's know that I ... it's not there. I

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all those T I times? 163:29:12. for the map update at a different

Descartes,

No, I was looking time.

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There goes Fra Mauro. Map update. Okay. I made 162:38:38. 162:38:38.

Now, here's the PAD. Now, let me show you - a mistake here. I started to write in

some numbers. I'll copy the PAD anyway. So, I'll have to write over those numbers with other little numbers and keep going. And it looks exactly like this PAD ... and I'll copy it. So, why don't I make - why don't I make another one now, while we're choo-chooing around? Especially when I am. Turn over and make one on the other side .... good place ... 06 18 37 53 06 18 38 23 06 18 38 28 06 18 38 30 06 18 38 31 LMP CDR LMP CMP CDR I'm going to clean those How many batteries critters this morning. Anybody know?

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ought

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Maybe they didn't figure we were far, maybe that's why it doesn't I thought that looked screwy.

... good news. Okay, we've got the PADs under control now. What's the next job? I've got a couple of sick PADs here. You ought to quit drawing on the screen ... We could read them ... they ought to furnish a screen llke that one, ... Boy, that's of it? That a great song. What the hell's the name

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... is doing my ...?

okay.

Where's

You know, it seems like I'm doing this son of a bitch just too much around here on certain days. Hand me the tool, Do what? Tool E. Pete, Yes. ... always ... can you put tool E down there? would you, Dick?

One burn! Ail you need is 4 minutes, dividend out of it. Herschel. Herschel. That's right. Freak. You know what's going to happen, don't you, Gordon? I'll make a prediction. They'll probably name it Herschel. yes. We'll get a

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Not only that. Not only that. But they are going to look at the freaking high REV photography of Herschel, and they are going to make some great discovery. That's ... - They're also going something - to decide to land there or right - -

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- - just like when we photographed the wrong freaking star that - that - that what's-his-name told us to he says, "I know I can find those two stars. Why don't we get the other in the wrong attitude." "No," he said, "That's where we go uv in that

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I couldn't see. And Dick was standing outside, because, hell, with all those ..., you know, you turn the camera on and off. Oh, here comes the sunshine. Off to my window - pane.

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I'll tell you, that one-sixth g was really great. And you need a goddamned ... with you. If you're standing on the floor and you want to go sit on the engine cover? You just go (whistle) (hum) - The things you couldn't ... and that PLSS - You'd just go - feel great? reach. - You - you know

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- - you'd just go (whistle) and grab it, and you'd fall right back down gently. A1 would say, "Hand me my PLSS." And you'd reach over and you'd pick that - One hand - - - son of a bitch up like - (laughter).

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Hey, I'll tell you what we need. With that PLSS on and your suit on, you were better than just your suit on in one g. Didn't you think so? Oh, yes. Freak, Oh, yes - -

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You know me; I hate to run. was - did was - -

Shit,

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You can't walk up there. You got to run. There's no way you can walk. And you have to botmce. You land flatfooted like this. You see, you can't bend your knees. So, you land flatfooted like this and you go boing. That's why your PLSS comes in handy.

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Yes. And so, then, you - so that means you can take turns, but you have to have your center of gravity over your - over your foot. So you end up going - rocking from side to side. It's real funny; you go like this - way over. Because, when you come down, you'll - ... go bong, bong - You

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- - center of gravity. And - and it's fun. can run up hills and everything else. Except I noticed, we didn't get too speedy up out of that Surveyor crater.

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Yes, because - because we kept running on the edge. We didn't just hit one. We - You can't - We all Here's how we were running, coming out of that Surveyor crater. You can't do that. So, it just took one high bounce to get us up ... high ... If you don't go up all the way on it, coming down ... That's too bad that cotton-picking after all that effort. TV didn't work

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Hey, I'll say it is. I'd have loved to show them that Surveyor. We could have pointed at it ... - that Surveyor. We could have pointed out the ALSEP, too, because even at 400 feet, it looks like you're - Yes. - - standing Yes. over there.

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They could probably have seen that whole ALSEP thing. When they found A1 Bean freaked it up, oh. Heard you freaked up. it up. I did. I - -

If you - if you did, they sure as shit didn't give you adequate warning that - They - they should know that the LM structures are too bright for that sunlight, and they should have told us. Christ's sake, I didn't - I - stopped down to f:22; I would have thought you could have shown it on anything except directly into the Sun.

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Well,

we'll

have to see what happened. - I got the lunar crud. I really do. I -

I'm really

Hey, make sure that thing is stopped down. The low setting is 2.2. The high setting is 22. And you can't tell the difference hardly. I never saw the freaking camera. I don't know what they had it set on for - course - Probably 2.2. I was in the shadow, Because, you know.

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Theoretically, That's right.

if I had it on 2.2 -

I got to get the gimbal angles on that ... Man, I yawed that bastard around about 35 degrees; I pitched; I rolled. I was really wheeling and dealing. Hey, there they come.

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Bey, there we go. You know what it'll turn out to be? 5 degrees and rolled 5 degrees. That's Exactly. God, this is weird. Isn't that a speetaeular sight, that sunrise? ... probable. I yawed

If you saw that in the movies, you would say, "God, that's fakey." That's just what I saw as we were burning LOI. I think you can see what I saw out the window. If you get real close to this, it's about as big as a - except it was black. It was real funny. It looked like that Moon - it looked like that Moon was right outside black - that window, but it was just

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... - PDI. Haven't I showed you. I mean, when - when Dick had us on the nose. Oh, yes. And when you were sitting sideways - I could see all these stars out that window. And, all of a sudden, it just was black. In fact, it was like that ... thing - It's like somebody in the simulator put a - a ..., and they had had a - one that was too small - you know, the - the sphere was too small. That's exactly what I think. over the flight path. Hey, Wait. look at that Where? It's not but 70 degrees not PDI but -

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Look at that son of a bitch. views of that - both sides. Copernicus, see? Yes. Look at that - -

I bet it will be; I bet it will be. There By-by, they go. Houston. By-by. I got to go pee again.

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Hey, Al? Yes, sir. You want to grab tool E and start water? I'll get it. Okay. - - fool with those Yes, take a leak. - - ... camera Waste water's up for him. up to 70 percent. off if we operated two cameras. cameras. He's got to - I'll get it, Pete. dumping that

Yes, we got to set them up down here. Because this way we can all - Here's the problem. We're not Now, look at that, we never could get all that P50 done in one run. You'll have one run of it, and then you'll run one through your camera, and you'll be aiming to shoot straight down; you can use the PSO and pick up the other stuff - stuff on the left, of course. I'll try to get this stuff to right, of course, for the P50 ... I'll get it, ... ... down there. Huh? ... That's good. ...

I'm just going to do the P50 there with that magazine, I got to come up with another magazine, and - Yes. - - know that I'm going to use all the film on it. That's going to be the hard part. What do you say, Dick? Well, we had - we only had two rolls That's all we had. of film.

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We already used a whole bunch. Ail this is black and white, isn't it? We don't have another blackand-white roll? The only black and white been using today. Well, we have is the one we've

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as far as I know - all out. Okay.

... get them

- - as far as I know, there's three rolls. Now, you only have one more - you only have one more requirement. Okay. Al? Hold up, Pete.

Is that what we been shooting? Hold that a minute. We throw away more freaking ...

60 ...?

No, here's What

the one ... is that?

film is that - what

Yes .... Something's ... Something's Here's one. funny. funny -

What the hell is this? This is .... this one is. funny here. funny ... ...

Something's Something's Getting Yes. ..., Dick,

color

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time I've run this.

Let's put - What have you got on the camera Double E. now?

That's a brand new roll, too, isn't it? Man, you got two rolls here haven't even been expose d yet. These two right here. This one's this film. this one's dead .... something's going wrong with This one's - ... What the - This gone all the way around to here.

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... Wonder why that light won't go out?

Which light? That. The dump's been off for quite the fuel cell purges are - a while. Ail

Shit, we've taken more than 80 on the last two alone. Take another one.

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Everything

moves. to watch this. is going on here? that.

No, but I want It moved Well, Can't then.

What the freak

it's working anyway, at least we know do anything about it now.

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At first, I gave it a whack and thought, that's no way to ...; maybe I didn't start off at the right time .... This thing's - Are you sure you haven't another roll? Huh? Huh? Won't make any difference, when they ... How's the films coming? we're about 30 minutes they can figure it out taken more film on

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I've got the clock running; from ...

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Hey, give me a camera that's had about 100 - let me see that color camera. Where's that one I gave you that had all six of ... It's in there.

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Black

and white

-

... down there. ... something Turn going wrong -

it this way.

This says we've taken as many as I think we have. This says we've taken up 100, and I guess we've taken about a 100. It says 190 on here. ...? ... ... No, we advanced, there's in it; pull it up. Huh? What you - what you taking? ... You been ..., yes. What time's Here's that first ... landmark tracking? clicking the intervalometer right along? no film in ... The film's

... time to do DAC. I am. There may be - there may be something with ... That's Let's ...? Lalande. Where Let's Use these the two magazines. for Lalande ...? all right, we've just use them. got these two. let's ... wrong

Fra Mauro? Fra Mauro, You can't No way. Hey, you can get it - Here's Fra Mauro, it's got to be on here. Maybe somehow it just didn't ... That thing looks pretty good. ... The thing that keeps us happy a little is that little white one that's way around on the ... side. But when I checked it a minute ago, she was jumping 60 to 62 - ... ... Wait a minute, Where's what? now. Where is it? that you're do it - ... not doing You really anything? can't.

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_.. There's 190 on this way, right? Right. One-third About 60? 60 - 62 - 3 You know what What? Herschel. Okay. I bet Herschel first part of - Descartes. - - or maybe on here. Could be. Because I don't remember - I can't honestly say I went around there and looked at this number. ... all on here. Hang on there, Whose is this? it ... go on around. you son of a bitch! all of Descartes, I don't know - is is on here and I bet the I've been marking? of 190 - roll. That's one-third of the

I know I didn't take 60 pictures of Herschel, Did you have anything on your camera before? 06 20 33 27 CMP Not a thing.

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You've got to have part of it, at least it - maybe you've got all of it. ... I don't want ... get it. ... up there. Could I guess. Okay. Where Right you going there. ... have stopped any more.

some of

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in the middle,

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to be working?

Wait a second,

I'll tell you what. I do remember - one time in the middle of the first one, I looked back ... like ... No, that's ... under probably the couch. checking it at all right.

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But I didn't have time to keep 6-second intervals ....

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The smartest thing for me to do is crawl under the bilge down there and go to sleep for a couple of hours. Why don't yo_ do it? That'll be good, the couch. What The way I feel, What's ... ... ought to be changed. are far from ... that'll let me move do you want ... ... going to be, Dick? my ... off

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Some of these

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Dick? Yes. Where are those your way. ... ... Got two REVs - ..., let's ... the cryogenics. Two REVs of this ... get ready. lines, and I'll get them out of

Okay. Now here's what I'll do. see what we got to do. Use the 85-millimeter Getting hairy lens on it. too.

Let me look and

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out here,

125 is the - probably be ... on that stereostrip, you always use the same setting, huh? ... attitude .... Fra Mauro. ... You could probably Oh, yes. - put the ... on ...

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Yes,

I think

I will.

... zero phase, ... of which is 4, 5/6ths, let me - That would be - that would be ... 4 5/6ths. Yes. ... Let me look at this .... The object is to minimize ... do that, and we want to get the stuff out of the side, too. Okay, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going shoot the 250 from the right side ...? No, I just want to see it .... ... That's right. 250 ... We'll down in here on ... Okay .... Get it out this window. Yes, ... ... probably write it to

We don't even have the color. We got color ... ... ... do it in black Oh, yes? Yes. That all right? ... ... 15, 7, and 02. Thirteen more minutes. time around here Use the best we've got. and white ... ...

... a little tracking ...

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... You got any bread Huh? Got any bread ... Maybe we don't have any left. I guess we don't. left? left?

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... got them What's today,

all now? Friday?

Why do we care? (Laughter) ... had to update this - What do we care, we ain't going anywhere. Salad? Hum? Salad? It's tuna Tuna salad. chicken like salad. ... chow ....

Oh, look at that! ... Look at that! ..., babe. ... going There's to be all right. else - that on the way - -

nothing

You can think

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, - ... Everything gets nearer and nearer .... You know, I think that had a lot to do with a lot of guys ... When you get out here, babe, you ... ... way off ... Huh? ... I have. We're still in ORB RATE. ...

Langrenus? Ought to be. You get - Hell, get the other one, though .... - Yes. ... Behind him is ..., though. Yes. Okay .... Look at that Earth, believe that! What? That Earth, I just can hardly believe look at that Earth.

Hey, Jerry, have the boys check the - the - speed setting on that one. That was a pretty bright target. And I put the film on 1/60th; I think it ought to be about 1/125th. Will you check them on that? Roger. Which target was that? 1.

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This last one, Fra Mauro Okay. It's still pretty bright.

Okay. Dick, while I have you, sometime on the back-side pass here, I think you can expect to see the manifold pressure on the RCS quad C start to dis - decrease, meaning that you've depleted your primary tank. Okay. We'd like you to switch only. Ail right? Okay. switch to secondary on that quad

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Secondary on C only. Thank unless I see them de - -

you.

I won't

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Do that just when the manifold decrease - -' That's what I was going to say. until I see it decrease. Good show, Dick.

pressure

starts to

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12, Houston. your setting Okay.

Go ahead. We concur with you on for Fra Mauro. on the next pass.

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Houston, Go, 12.

12.

Okay, A1 just put in a con_nent about starting these a little early. I felt that I had to, because that last mark, the target is going out of sight. That's because our field of view in the telescope isn't as much as it is in the sextant, and I think we'd better start a little bit earlier than 40 seconds after T2, and I've done that purposely. Any comments?

Did you ... them up? This Huh? Do you have ... on to the nose of this thing .... is ... other things to do ...

... I keep holding What?

It's the ... - the - it looked TIME SKIP and white left

good.

Hold this.

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... That's what white - I said was we've got more black and

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... that was 16 millimeter. We'll just have to do it without 16 millimeter .... They want the ... with 16 millimeter, and they want a bunch of photos. You've got this running already, it's ORB RATE. _at we need is to get this stuff .... go to OPTICS, but ... broken ... came apart. Came unglued. But I think I probably screwed up. I think I probably opened it and didn't know it. ... a lot with these You couldn't things. though, Pete.

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get it back together,

No, but that - You know, I don't know anything about these things. Maybe if you got your film loaded, it won't go back together and - I don't know about - ... Where did it come apart? Right here? it - when you

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No, no, no. move it.

It's when you move

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Oh, on the side. ... instead

Yes.

of the P22.

I think that the P22 is the way to do it, I really do .... ... stay another REV ... to do that. Did

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... stay another REV. We ought you get Latande the last REV? ... You're right. Let's do that. REV.

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Let's do that. freaking thing ...

That would salvage the whole and we would have it all on film.

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Tell them we got to do that. salvage the son of a bitch. Yes, I think we ought to and get the right edge. Yes. Yes. Tell You them know, we had do

That's right, that's ... without ... We already Isn't that Yes. I mean, ... what can did do the it. to to

couldn't

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Shoot, yes;

I can't

find that

first mark.

Is that right? Well, maybe we ought to get Lalande - just get non and tell him to set up the attitude and the lighting ... get the chance to run the computer Got a P22. What were we going to do the last run - -

...

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You got to - got to - Actually, all we need to do is get 500, do ..., get all that stuff in the bag, and we'll have everything there. If we don't, we're not going to get the film done. And we got to ... CP-1, I'll have it, and then the other three, and the third one, and we got it all in one PAN ... We've done 130, CP-1 - and then - all that. Let me ask you a question. What was the elevation at acquisition of the others? There About you go. 500 ...? It was 3 minutes prior to ...

meantime they give us a TI T 2 for ... - that's that one again. 06 22 45 20 LMP We have 4 minutes to go until - 5 minutes or so to get back in attitude and get the camera off the ... Not only that, but I'm - We're not happy knowing where they added the first time, There's only one reason ... with not anyway.

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It doesn't make any difference when we leave the Earth. You can only get to Earth in so many seconds every 24 hours. It's Just like we had a 4-hour launch window for leaving Earth, ... land ·.. sea .... Well, let me get down here Where the hell's my flight It never fails .... and start working. plan? ... spacecraft ... Ouch!

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magazines

The only pictures of the flight A1 wanted were the ones of earthrise out of the LM, and I went and left the freaking thing on the lunar surface. The only way to avoid ... you can ... here came open. hurry.

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Tell me how this happened· I'm sitting talking to Dick and the goddamned thing Oh, I can't do that .... Do we have optimum No, I guess not. These That sides popped freaking clear off it? is forever - in a goddamned on these

Do you need the flight plan, Not right Okay. Hello, Okay, Houston; Houston. Yankee at the moment;

I will

Clipper. up. go.

You're breaking

Come on! Nothing we

Get a good signal, can do if we can't

let's

... on what we got.

He's looking right down the - parallel to it right now, we'll have to wait until we get out a little bit. Roger. Loud and clear. Listen, Jerry. I've got something real important for you. We were taking some target-of-opportunity photographs with the same film pack that we had the 500-millimeter film on, and, without going into details right now, I'll tell you later when we have the time - That magazine back popped off, and we're not sure we didn't wipe out that film magazine. Now, what we suggest is, is that we dump the landmark tracking, seeing as we got good ones last time on Descartes and Fra Mauro, and you pump us up another TI T2 for both of them and let's get some more 500 millimeter this pass on another magazine. Okay?

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Okay. Must be Huh? ... that way .... , I forgot.

... any better, Pete?

Feeling

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Huh? Feel any better?

I don't think there's anything wrong other than I have a cold and I get so goddamned tired, I thought maybe I'd crawl down there and go to sleep for an hour. Oh, yes. Yes, you can't got was ... Go, Houston. Hooray! Okay. Let me tell you what happened. We - A1 was very careful to watch all the time we were taking the 500-millimeter pictures to make sure that the camera was, in fact, running, and he was watching the side opposite the counter, which has got the little red-and-white wheel. Is that right? ... sleep too well; all you

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And, and, and - I mean he was watching the red and white to see if it was taking a picture, and we noticed that we - after we got done, all the 500-millimeter stuff that - We knew we had taken approximately 100 pictures, but the counter only read 60. And we kicked that around for quite a while, and we finally concluded that because A1 had been watching, that there was something wrong with the counter and we really had taken all the pictures. So we decided that we'd use up the rest of that film on targets of opportunity. And while A1 was taking the pictures out the window, the side of the magazine just popped off_ right out of nowhere, for no reason, and it opened up about one-eighth of an inch and Al tried to jam it back on and he had to actually open the lock and put it back on. I never made it on. I had to tape it on.

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we're surely suspicious. We also don't know if it was only partially on to begin with, or that we really did lose film. So I think it's best that we take a fresh magazine which we have, and we'll get those pictures again. 06 23 04 58 06 23 05 04 CDR CMP Okay. We agree. They're hustling.

You write them control point. ... attitude,

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anyway. they are .... ordinarily these

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of time.

Let's see, now, what I need to do. We're going to copy that part. We've got him doing such a - get the lighting out of the back .... Which one is this here? Fra Mauro. to already be there.

You know that P30 PAD I used Where did it go? ... Yes. Oh .... Did you give it to me? One of those loose

for a model,

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Yes. That's right. I was thinking about that. Because you get a one-REV-later TEI output. We've already I think we'll used up one -TEI 45 partial .... all be better off ...

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I think I might have. I think I might have bothered that one instead of the other one. They're both the same. I don't know, shit. I don't remember it, but I was handling the camera Dick Gordon only tracked Got us there. How do you spell Yes. That explains why that wheel was spinning. It was - probably had pulled out just a fraction of an inch right there and he didn't know it, and I reached up and grabbed it and looked at it. I could see ... working at it. Go, Houston. Yes, sir. Okay. And don't forget to work up that same data for Lalande for the REV before TEI, there. ... need that .... Okay. I think we can all find Lalande now .... question .... Hey, try this. our side once, damn it.

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Okay. Now let me ask you another film magazine. Not that I know of. I thought we had another ... - -

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... to the attitude, Okay.

Pete ....

Yes, I think when I did it - Remember I didn't think it was rotating? Yes. They've got both of them right there,

Here we come up across the - We got 6 minutes. - - our favorite What's No Theophilus? Hey, Jerry, those guys on those last two P22 points, I don't see anything different from the first ones, anyway. Roger, Dick. P22s you been We lucked out. Anything's Huh? You're freaking it simple with the best crew. simple with the best crew. Judging sending from the results on all the down, buddy, you're the expert. that? spot.

Herschel?

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He's trained

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You better believe it. We should have gone on November 14th; it was a better ... Hey, Jerry, tell Kohrs also that on CP-2, he did pick that northern crater, and the one he's got in the - in the catalog is the centered one. But the coordinates he has is for - is for a northern one as he'll see in the film. Roger. That's the one you marked on. Right?

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Yes, just this last one. I marked on the - the one he has in the film, but the coordinates are actually for the northern crater.

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Why don't you wait a minute? What in the - world! I thought you guys tracked this REV - No, no, you're going to do the stereostrip this REV, huh? How can it do that? ... You have to think that - you're not going now. to do ...

..
Then, .. Well, .. Good .. yes. through ... you going to have to stop in the middle.

coming luck! I see.

Then what

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On this REV. Oh, the REV ... We're getting part of it, not all of it. They're only giving you - Oh, I see, they're only giving you 16 minutes' worth. Right. ... is somethingX Oh, I know - I know - I know what it is. It's REV 44 that they give you all your updates on. REV 44 .... We're going around tailpipe up. We got three goddamn guys in here; one has to copy; you do that ... and I ... Who stole my pen? I'm going to bring You stole mine. ... We ought to go around ... it back.

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Here it is, right here. Uplink to - uplink to CSM ... I don't understand this at all .... do a P52 on the back side, and we've done that; stereostrips here ... getting all lost; ... DSE; update to CSM; map update REV 45, TEI 45 PAD. ... looking right at them. They always ... Well, we're going to be doing Lalande right there when they're doing all that anyway. Why can't we do Lalande - Why can't we do this? ... I've got the vector ... There's no way you can mark on the two marks you got to mark on ... Out here, we could photo ..., I guess. I oked at that again. right here.

... how the ... Come on, SCS. Take a ... one. Got all sorts of ... - ...

Well, maybe it's because I've led 8 slee - had 8 days without sleep and I was so miserable ... I hope Hope ... ... last night.

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not but

I think

they had a party

Celebrate. That's right. Wait until the flight planners a hold of him on his own flight. get

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Well - well, I don't give a shit ... every morning ... and at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Well, that's the way it's supposed to be!

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Hot dog!

And ... (laughter). can have ._. Not a hell of a ... that had a lot to ... said, remember these blasted

That way everybody lot to do normally ... what we always bags. There never was but hell of it ... (Laughter)

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Those - those batteries!

Those batteries

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It's like - you know - Well, I thought what was going to happen for a minute there .... , you know, I got the strange feeling that we were going to wind up in orbit with a spacecraft that had no electrical power. Yes, that's crossed my mind, too. around. ...

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Just fooling

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You know, I can't stay up any longer ... stayed up. I haven't slept but 2 hours every day since we've been up here. Yes, ... 8 hours ... saying every night ....

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That's what I've been close both eyes ...

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Listen, I'd wake up, and I'd look at the time, and say, "What time are we supposed to get up?" ... lay there and look up .... Haven't Tonight had any trouble we get 8 hours' sleeping sleep .... on this schedule. wakes up ...

No, all those goddamned bags are locked away in there ... Normally, you could wrap your garbage in the over ... and you don't have that mess. Those things are ... Yes. Oh, I see what you mean. You put the old ... down there; that's what you did.

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(Laughter) Bunch of ...... I'd like to use that. (Laughter) He wants to take his map ... that SPS burn. How long is that, Three minutes Good grief! a 4-minute ...

- - that garbage ... and we won't through the hatch. No. There's plenty of work

be able to get

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I don't care .... I really wouldn't, care. Not going to have me for a ...

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I've got - I'll tell you, once I had a grand master ... all responsibility ... go down to the Cape and ... (laughter). You can say that again. You spent you? the whole damn summer down there, didn't

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Yes, I did; d_n Supposed Yes ....

right,

I did.

to be up in a week. (laughter).

PAO is down there with "Well, the boys are in good humor up there" (laughter). Oh, PAO, you look at this DSE tape, you're going to kill me. How are you doing down there in the world of advertising? You know, Yes, that orange drink is really good!

_.. Sure it is. ... Ail those others been working about ..., Dick. What do you have, orange drink?

Man, I'm still thinking What?

Jumping out of that d_mn spacecraft down there and I'm standing over there looking around ... supposed to the Surveyor (laughter). Do you realize ... we got out?

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Do I? I could have - I was - ... go by the crater, and I thought I'd landed - next to the ... crater ... We were still talking about it, see; and -and and, well, we were still talking about it. We - we still talking "Now ..." about it, Pete; and I said,

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The next thing we did ... and I was so - I thought I'd gone to that ... and all of a sudden ... there was this big godd-mn crater and ... So, then, I finally, i flew it around the left side of the spacecraft ... We would have ... that Surveyor ...

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Well, that's Just exactly where it was flying. Sure, if I was going somewhere. I thought I was going somewhere .... I flew that big ... so much I ... I ... to the right and then I thought we were long ... Then, I felt, well, I'm wrong; I'm going to wind up short ... I'm going to look at the parking lot, and I didn't like it ... 30 seconds ... one step forward and then - and then we flew - we flew right up - The Surveyor crater was like, right here; and we flew right up to the parking lot; we were still about 6 or 700 feet. At that point, I took it manually; we were going like hell. At that point, I took it manually, and I held 30 degrees right over here ... And what I did was, as I flew

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it around like this, flew it around here, and then rolled it back out and got her going this way again, then that ... would turn to the left - ... 07 00 47 10 CDR I'll tell you, that big bastard got ... we were absolutely level when we shut it off. When I got ... the right time ... and shut the engine off_ the big bell was level with - the ground's like this, and the plus-Y gear. Yes. So I rocked it over and stopped. The probe - the probe was in ... right under the gear ... those drag marks, where they hold - ... Looked gray and looked like all the boulders were white - gray - going all over. I did when I was ... Gosh, I Just thought it was like the area of the ... and I Just knew that that was good. Maybe we're in the wrong place.

What kind of good thing can happen to the SPS engine ...? It could - It purges the shit out of us and the ... nearly knock you over? Huh? We've gone over that.

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Yes .... Haven't gone over it yet .... that that I remember. Same ... but I have to stop and think what the freak it was here that was right, and it's not right ... Where's the PAD? ... in 1 minute, you guys. You have to check on them

I got my ... ready and they're not over 90 .... It's very rare if one will be ... I didn't - I didn't would show anyway. What? Don't I what? think pictures of this side

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I'd have really slept down there a hell of a lot better than I did - As a matter of fact, when you woke me up - Yes, well - No matter how tired I am, if I sleep a little bit, when sc_ething wakes me up, and I ... have a hell of a time going back to sleep. I sleep for 10 hours. Something happened in the spacecraft about three times in a row. That's the main thing. If I go to sleep and I'm real tired, and something wakes me up two or three times ... I'm awake. That glycol pump used to change frequency. It really changed frequency once right after I went to sleep. And, man, I woke up with a shock .... and then a couple of times when ... and I slept a good 4-1/2 hours. But I'd have that ... I don't think ·suit ... Well, Man. slept a lot better if - it's the ...

No, no, no. No that - Well - No, I got to fold out one page length. No.

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Right at the very first of these plans, they had taken it out. They got some alternate contingency ones there. We _plash down on Monday morning - No, we splash down Monday afternoon at 1500. So, today must be Monday - Sunday. There we go .... Tuesday. Yes. ... That's about right .... ... 4 o'clock, I think Three Friday .... to be ...

What? You can't ... screw Well, do anything it around more than that. for 10 days?

and around

they , they - ... 5 days in space.

No, no, Sure.

It's exciting, but after that 1 day's enough and then you come home. If you have anything to do. Really got to fly more ... than you think it is. No, it really ... really is - -

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Flying is better than I ever imagined it. I never could imagine ..., you know, the way this thing moves around when you look out the window. In the simulator ... you see you hovering up there in that sunlight; you still can't move. You ... keep coming in there ... Real weird. What is weird is sitting down there on the lunar surface and watching him go whistling overhead. Whoosh! ...? Oh, sure. Huh? Sure. Moving Yes. Oh, yes! out?

Now, I kind of suspect that we would get some attenuation of the - of the size in the atmosphere when you see a satellite go by. You weren't as bright. You're - you were bright, but you were very small. You were Just like a star. I am very small. Very small, but there's know. no doubt who it was, you

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I understand now why all those particles were going out in front of me. You know, I said every time I looked out the AOT to the front or the sides - all the time these little particles whoosh - Man, they looked like they were going - Just ridiculous. Yes, some of them looked like they didn't even have a trajectory. They just ... - away as far as I could see. Whenever we Jet - ... that spot ... - -

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- - whenever we Jettison the I_ and you talked about that thing coming out the back; that's the deflector, that water boiler. Well, those little particles of water go zingggg, and shoot out that way, see? That's what I was seeing. I knew that was what it was, but I couldn't understand why it would come around the front. Nonpropulsive venting.

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... half of them out the back. I tell you another thing I think is fascinating. You're up here without any motor, you see yourself going like hell - I can't get used to that. You

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like or

Well, I get the biggest charge out of it, like in the LM ... when you're maneuvering with Rcs, you know, ... over sideways, and you go whoosh! ... (Laughter) It is neat. Jesus Christ, thing. (Yawn) Now, we are. The best thing they Said to me the whole trip was, I could take that BIOMED harness off. Man, I was really itching. Twelve minutes. Twelve and a half; 12:20. time. you're not even locked in this dRmu

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Six minutes until we get that damn descent Did you get that data on ...? ... sounds like I'm ... up.

You got power on your buses, and you've able to do it ... (laughter). Okay. I - I hadn't even realized clung how

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... - will now

All the dust that's get unclung. Hey, you're down there. right.

to something

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... 2000 feet won't give you the velocity to get away the Moon and back to Earth orbit ... No - That's What? Sure doesn't, ... 36 0007 Well, we needed No, we need more l0 - than that. 5; so, we need 8 to get back does it? right.

You'll say, "Why have you got that string holding your arm up in the air?" Because I like it that way - I like it that way - -

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... his face is - You can always tell somebody ... face by the way he sleeps with his arms in the air. God, I use - I used to - never use to run into the other guy all the time like this; I was so used to - Yes, that's true. Comfortable - -

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When I'd wake up in the middle of the night, when we were sleeping together, the sight was the ugliest I ever - ... You like that? Hey, Richard, I'll tell you what why don't you give it a GDC ALIGN? Get the pusha-button, Pusha da pusha-button. huh? Okay. -

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Ten degrees an hour which would look like the goddA_ned thing was going in circles. Is that what it is? Ten degrees? GDC ALIGN. You know after that rendezvous, I flipped that AGS to GDC ALIGN ... balls, one off. 200 degrees .... Find a guy that can operate (Laughter) that ... (laughter).

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... be a fast man on the button. ...

Come on, you guys,

It was so funny; but, after CSI, I couldn't get a word out of him. He just goes ... got him all pissed off. ... I knew hell. I had done it because he was as funny as

I don't know. These engines condition you for it. In Gemini - No, I'm serious. In Gemini, there was nothing except the Agena that gave you any thrust vector, and you never used it that much anyhow. We been in and out of the g-field pretty good. When we came down after 8 days, we got up to about two-tenths of a g and I thought I was pulling four g's - no shit. Yes. So, as soon as - then as soon Gordo said, "One g," you calibrate yourself, and you're okay from there on. Is that right? Yes. ... ... it somewhere. Okay. There they are. Houston; Apollo 12 enroute We've got a burn status

90, 31, ... Hook her in over here. ... You're out there all alone, too, aren't you?

I don't - I don't think - I don't think you and I will ever find ourselves so far out ... where we were miles from that freaking LM and all by ourselves in those ... suits. I'm still nervous because I felt I could - I really thought about it. Besides, I couldn't get nervous when I had to get the Job done. Better to get with it. Where's my mike? TIME SKIP

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... that freaking cable. I stumbled over that bastard, I don't know how many times. It was laying ... the dirt flat on the ground, off your foot. too. It wasn't ...

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Yes. That's right. You'_ have had to to see that. When we get on that boat in that MQF, we'll Just sit down there and really list all that shit. I don't think ...

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Well, you see, it was just like - How the hell you going to think about it. They wanted shit and I - had to put the rock box, and the - Colton [?] camera and the - the - those plus-Y gear pins. Now who is going to keep remembering to walk around the S-band antenna so you don't stumble over the cable every freaking time - -

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We could have - It was saying flat ... practiced it ... foot on the ground .... dragged your feet a lot. Yes. I thought skipping was better than - than anything else for some reason. Although, when we were really going long distances, I ran the way you recommended. I tell you, I'd recommend that POGO to anybody. That son of a bitch was Just like - either of those POGOs. Hey, you could take that one we got and put a - a sdr-bearing on the Z-axis; but, other than that, it runs the same way. And you could get something ... which is normally impossible ... ... that ALSEP ... ALSEP ... down ... nearly came unlocked ... it not only had a hole in it, but ... handle ... Yes. The whole freaking deal broke ... Those bags are ridiculous. And that Teflon is terrible out there. It broke! ... So did I. ... another thing, I could give a freaking ... At least you could bend over it. I've already said it several times over the radio, which is a good place to say it. Yes, I've noticed that.

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You were raising hell about it while I was laughing my ass off. You were really raising hell about some stupid device. What the hell was it? The scale. Oh, I remember that. Yes .... laughing my

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I was Just laughing my ass - really ass off. ... or something ...

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God damn, I knew I was ... I - I - ... had moved away the freaking water in the damn scale. The thing that's so stupid about it is that there's no way you can feel that scale unless you're an ape. Nobody thought about that. Nobody thought about - That's number one. Because the scale itself was so light, there was no spring tension on it at all which is what happened. It wouldn't zero out, you see.

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You turn it all the way out and you still ... heavier Yes. Yes. The spring one-sixth g. And we - ... it up. We tore that son of a bitch it fixed; God d_mu. apart was - the spring in one-sixth g.

- -

was heavier

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and finally

got

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... the whole thing the ... - you're it was the spring weight. I say, there's a lot of little they didn't think we'd do.

right

that

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things we did that

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Now, first they said, now if you tell us you're tired, you don't have to weigh the water ... all that shit ... the whole freaking deal. Oh, shit ... ...

Pete, if we'd had to shoot ... you'dbe ... hell out of ... that was good .... that thing was ... Yes - Oh, that's what I figured. As a matter of fact, I figured - I figured I'd break the son of a bitch open. Break that son of a bitch open, and we were going to get that goddamn ... out of there if it was the last freaking thing we did. Because I remember - but once you - You were the one who said it sometime along there. You know, if you don't get that RTG out, that's the end of the ALSEP ... we got long time to go ... I said, "Yes, that's right." ... - All the way up - I was all the way up ... ... hotter ... our ... ...

I could be hotter. I was surprised ... I never was aware of any temperature, the rock boxes or anything. Now Yes. ... ... That last rock box. ever; doing to know it wasn't blowing.

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The last rock box; it's a good thing I thought about that SIDE brush down there, or we would have never got that bastard closed. I mean Yes. ... bigger ... we both had ... ...

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Could you imagine what a LM - could you imagine what the LM would be like after 3 days of getting in and out of that thing twice a day? ... reach over to the sides and get the ... DEPRESS ... Just like that ... get out. Real tight one time ... Cast off .... what we saw ... The only thing that's bothering me are all those engine, you know. Jesus, they were grinding to a halt. They sure were ....

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Yes, but you can't - you can't clean them, completely. Probably you can wipe out what you can reach, but you can't get down there in the - ... wasn't she something. Like - like I noticed the purge valve. Ail around - all around where they said - ... - Oh, yes. ... Boy, you could really smoke with that hammer up there. Did you see what you did to that ...? Beat the hell out of it. And I can't understand now why ... Just drive it in ... ground. I think ground. - I think we must have been in different And I - I - I can't wait - All right around the top.

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Know what's

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to happen? h-_merer by now .... all

I ought to be a gr_at bent out of shape. Know what's What? The freaking 28 inches be all the same. going

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to happen?

of core tube is going

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That's right .... you watch, you'll see it ..., but I'm not convinced we were at the right crater at all. I don't know where don't. It was that first the bench crater was. I really

.;. was the Sun bothering Not yet. Go to FREE, Pete. Go to FREE, Pete. You're

the FREE..

... about all last year ... Gives you a lot ... got a lot of different things to do. We never saw anything that resembled vent. That's what Dick thinks. ... life ... you know like thought I saw that ... Super, Dick, Or is - super. a transient

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... darn crater

... I

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Are you marking

on the Moon?

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No - no, the Earth. God damn, I'm still cold.

How about that - how about this deal llke we Wonder if that'd put warm air in like we did with suits? Getting around the secondary coolant

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You have consider ...

that cabin too cold (laughter). We'll it a malfunction and act accordingly.

Oh, we sure don't have - Hey, Dick? Well, never mind. No, we don't. Let's - let's get the high gain back. I wonder what the - What angles were those? Just a minute. All right. through with this maneuver, Those God ... guys it. As soon as I get I'll tell you. Yes. Here.

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There you go. - - - I've got to do that again. What? ... Hold this ... 12. for you. frigging series all over

Anybody got any suggestions down there on how we can warm up the cabin a little bit? It's getting a little cool in here. Can we go - do like we did on launch day or whatever it is and maybe run the secondary loop without any coolant on it or something? TIME SKIP

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Okay, you that and and I'll to worry

still with us? Yes, tell him to press I'll say that was three, and I press on do another trunnion bias. You don't have about it.

... again. Yes. Pour How do you do that, it on. sleep tonight, Al, ... a time sleeping Al?

You better tonight. (Laughter) Huh? Yes. Yes.

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... right after

... bother

me,

... no after

...

Right after, yes. It doesn't bother me_ It's going to be noisy as hell, but it's nice - I'll tell you, the one thing that it does when your ... is going to stop, and that's what it changes in noise level every once in a while, and that scares the living shit out of you. Houston, Apollo 12.

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Roger. Let me give you these angles on the GDC at this time. Okay. Roll, 072.25; pitch is 352.4; yaw is 081.55. Maybe you'll have to bypass. other one later

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Yes. Roger. I'd like to get that on before ... leave this attitude. Wait a minute .... that's

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the glycol pump. valve or something on

No. If they had a bypass the What? On the glycol On the what? On the I_M. Oh, on the LM .... pump.

No. It was just noisy. No. If it'd run along one level, you don't mind the noise. It's when

something changes, though. You'll be laying there and all of a sudden the thing will go ahhh, and I'm going to go aughhh! ... (Laughter) 08 01 07 37 08 01 07 43 08 O1 07 46 CDR LMP CDR Got them turned ... ... in GDC, it will come back up, I think. ... A1 has to ... down to get them.

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Hey, the antenna's ... Doesn't seem to be

not on.

...

Yes, but it's not oscillating; that's the thing. Because, I said, the signal strength drops off, but the antenna is not oscillating. ... Well, the signal strength oscillates when the antenna is in the ... But now what's'happened is the antenna is apparently driven off some amount and it's just staying there. Houston, 12.

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It looks like what the antenna's done now is driven to some position other than optimum, and it's just sitting there. It's driven here. Yes, you're Roger. WIDE in the same angles you have it set

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d_n

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... Get caught up ...

BEAM width.

It's down to 3.8. I got to let this darned TIME SKIP zipper down.

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What

did I do wrong

the last time?

Changed speeds on the tape recorder. Going to a HIGH BIT RATE, LOW BIT RATE. You've got to change speeds for that. Turn it off. Change speeds, and then back on again. You got it. Man, is this chocolate pudding and butterscotch pudding ever good. You ought to try some.

Where are our funny hats; you know? what happened to our helmets? I'll wear that during reentry ... around my head. Hit by lightning We sure are. That could have ended you know that? The good Lord wanted You piss me off. the whole twice, huh?

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so I can hear better.

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We're

really

lucky.

show right

there,

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to test us out.

Booml

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He just wanted to see if A1 Bean really had nerves of steel like he keeps telling everybody.

...
Do-do-doodle-da-do-da-do. Do-do-doodle-da-do-dado. Takes almost l0 hours to start - no, 2 hours to start that up, doesn't it. Okay. 190; code other full Pitch is about minus 20 degrees; yaw is and the AGC - I'll give it to you in clock for 12 o'clock; it's about - about 45; in words, I'd estimate about three-quarter scale. ... right now.

Roger. It's the same as before, Ed. Minus 190, and about three-quarter full scale.

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%.. Roger. On NARROW BEAM.

Okay, Ed. Pitch looks like it's about minus - 12, yaw is 180, and the AGC peaked when I switched to NARROW and it's dropped off now to threequarter full scale. (Singing with music Okay .... 121, 41 Do-de-do-de-do-de-do. ... Springfield)

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(Baby, It's You by Dusty What a day for ...

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I seem to be searching a little bit. You know, it looks like gain is creeping, not so straight yet, but it's gone up by about five-sixths; and the antenna position angles are pitch, minus 20, and yaw, 190. No, I don't see any at all right now.

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Get back there Getting Yes. pulse?

in yaw, you old bear.

Those ... will be firing all around minute. Well, got the service module off. worrying about drogues and mains. Clouds and thunderstorms. there - That horizon isn't much,

you in a

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start

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view

out

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is it, Al? all along; it was

No. It must have been there Just gray - Yes. - - and you didn't Yes.

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know it, see?

We can't see freak all out here. our service module is? Man, that Yes. Thing Wonder

Wonder

where

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it's out there in the boonies. crap we're leaving behind us. They always do.

Where? Right in my window. Like it's supposed to be. Right in the lower left-hand corner of my window. That's why I can't see it. Okay. You still haven't got MAN ATT, three, RATE COMMAND. No. Okay. Why don't you put that back Does Yes. It doesn't matter don't you? where it is. You know that, that bother you? to AUTO? But he will when he goes to theDAP.

Look up - up left. Oh, yes. We're Sprays Yes. Yes. It's like - Yes, part of it's that throat. You're getting up the speed, Al. You're up to over 34 000. Fastest I've been this week. How about you? up to 33 7. the stuff, doesn't it?

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Me, too. Still go to the ship. Mine

zero g. (Sigh) 2900 miles to Oh, man. MY ears hurt. Whewl

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are in bad shape, too; the left one. Suppose we have

MY left - my left one, too. leftitls? Left moonitis? Left moonitis.

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We left it all right. ain't no

Whether it's stopped up or not, there stopping it - Just hurting. Less than 5 minutes.

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Do you feel heads-down? Do you feel - Think it's being strapped in this seat like this. Maybe it's just - I know I'm heads-down. I think that's probably because you know you're it. Feel like it's heads-down - Hot d_u. Hello, to get moonset right

Got some high clouds and some low clouds there. Got a lot of ocean. You're Three going to have moonset pretty

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quick.

minutes. at that. I

Hey, that's something else. Look wish I had a picture of that. Where Right is it? out the center hatch.

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Turn your camera on a minute. on a second, Al.

Turn your

camera

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Roger, Houston. Read you loud and clear. watching the moonset. Hey, Al, turn your camera on. Maybe you a picture of it for a couple of seconds. The camera's Yes. Too far away, huh? It's way out of the - Okay. Going under. going this way,

And on my mark, you'll have moonset, You can check your time. 3, 2, i MARK. Moonset. Boy. That thing really disappeared,

Houston.

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Huh? Yes. It's flat gone. 18 or 19:45. It won't be long now. Babe, we're in. You can tell we're lower. How about 35 481 feet per second? It's not bad. We're hauling our ass through here. Look out that - look out your side window. Son of a bitch! Making knots, aren't we? whistling

MARK. Three minutes. Tell me at 4 so I can stop the camera. I sure will. Yes. Sixty-two; g is up to 2. Holding of 2 a little bit. Call the bank Plus 60. Okay. Periodically. 2. Coming off angle for me. Okay. Lift vector up. Reverse at 56.

Okay. We're taking our second dip in. We're taking our second dive in. We're up to 3g's. Below the 3g's, and it's tracking very smooth. The first time I got a shower at 6g's, I thought I'd wiped all the water out of the tunnel. Four g's. great. Lift vector Yes. That's 60. We're heading for 4 and we're doing

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up.

Reverse

and bank on - -

of 56 minus

- -

right.

Right

- - minus Right on.

Very good. Seventy miles EMS. 9000 feet a second. into the deal. Okay. Seventy-one degrees' We've

A couple of them are. One of them isn't yet. There they go. Hello, Houston; Apollo 12. Three gorgeous, beautiful chutes. We got all three. And we're shape. Okay. Okay. ..... Okay. Main SURGE - VHF ANTENNA deploy; TANK - OFF. at 8000 feet on the way down in great